[AFI]

My friend gave me a program called "The All-Seeing Eye" which is pretty cool. It does the following and more:

knows the geographical location of every server - you can filter out far away servers without wasting time pinging them

buddy tracker - a dedicated server does all the work, so the list is always up to date

data compression - on average, cuts server refreshing times to one tenth
support for dedicated "pingers", which can be set up on your isp or some close by server on a fat pipe to do all the server pinging for you
you will never see the hourglass icon, applying filters and switching between server lists is instantaneous
automatic updates, when a new version is released, Eye updates itself automatically
draws player names with game font, all games supported
remote console and admin features for server admins
support for helper programs such as QuakeWorld/Quake 2 proxies and Half-Life PunkBuster

It works for team fortress, day of defeat and just about everything else. Go to http://www.udpsoft.com/eye to download it.