http://www.surbl.org/news.html

Ask Bjørn Hansen of develooper.com is using SURBL data to block spammer domains in the Metamark Shorten™ Service URI shortening and redirection service. This is the first use of SURBL data to prevent abuse of a redirection site that we've heard of! Great going!

Ask explains his motivation as: "I mostly did it to make it less likely that I'll have to deal with abusers of the service manually. Hopefully the other redirection services will realize that benefit soon as well."

To anyone who knows how to contact the other redirection sites: please feel free to write them with this news and possibly the open letter to redirectors:

http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html

Cheers,

Jeff C.