Announce November 2005

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Notlong.com redirection service protected by SURBLs
by Jeff Chan 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Eric Hammond says that his Notlong.com redirection service "has been protected by SURBLs since July 2004." Nice going Eric! http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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SURBLs help protect TinyURL
by Jeff Chan 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Kevin Gilbertson reports that he has been using SURBLs for "about a year now" to protect his popular redirection site TinyURL.com from abuse by spammers and phishers. TinyURL joins MetaMark Shorten and SnipURL in using SURBLs to protect their redirection services. Thank you to all of them for taking this important step to prevent abuse of their services. If you know of any other redirection services who might benefit similarly, please point them to our "Open Letter To Operators Of Redirection Sites" at: http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Internal whitelist glitch
by Jeff Chan 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Between about 11:00 and 13:00 UTC there was a glitch on my new engine's whitelist processing where an inadvertent blank line in a manual whitelist broke the whitelisting. As a result some legitimate domains were briefly blacklisted. They are now properly excluded from blacklisting. For those with long memories, this happened with the old engine once also. I've since added a sed -e '/^$/d' to prevent this from happening with the new engine also. Thank you to those who brought this to my attention. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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be.surbl.org to be decommissioned
by Jeff Chan 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

The data in be.surbl.org, originally from Chris Santerre's BigEvil SpamAssassin ruleset, is stale and has been superceded by ws.surbl.org for a long time now, so we will be shutting down DNS service for it in one month, at the end of November. Please update your configurations to use multi.surbl.org (strongly preferred) or ws.surbl.org instead. http://www.surbl.org/lists.html This change should only be necessary for folks who manually configured their applications to use be.surbl.org. Default installations of SpamAssassin and other SURBL-using applications should be using multi and the appropriately encoded lists already. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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