Discuss April 2009

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Mailing list gets bounces from my mail provider because of surbl
by Daniel Dickinson 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi, My ISP (www.bmts.com - Bruce Telecom, reachable at tech(a)brucetelecom.com) uses surbl to detect and block SPAM, however the debian mailing lists do not and this results in bounces of mail sent to the debian mailing lists and through it to me through my provider. This is bad because the debian mailing lists unsubscribe users who have too many bounces. My ISP tells me to contact you to get the offending site removed, however I don't object to the site blacklisted, but to the listz.debian.org mail bouncing. I asked them to whitelist it but they just reiterated that I had to contact you. I think they are wrong and not understand. Could someone kindly beat the over the head with instruction on how to whitelist listz.debian.org so that it is not blocked even if a surbl blacklisted URL is in the mail? The address of their tech support is tech(a)brucetelecom.com Please CC me if this is a busy list as I may then not see the message. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore (Daniel Dickinson's Website) http://cshore.is-a-geek.com

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Integrating twi.bz URL shortener and SURBL
by John Graham-Cumming 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Folks, You've probably not heard of my URL shortener service http://twi.bz/ because it is very new, but I wanted to appeal to the SURBL folks to accept twi.bzdomain names within the SURBL lists. twi.bz is differently from the standard URL shorteners in that it includes the domain name of the destination site in the twi.bz domain name. For example, a twi.bz link to amazon.com would be in the form: amazon.twi.bz/XYZ. A twi.bz link to amazon.ca would be in the form amazon.ca.twi.bz/XYZ and a twi.bz link to amazon.co.uk would be in the form amazon.co.uk.twi.bz/XYZ. For .com domains I strip the .com for all the rest I leave the TLD in place. Since this is in the domain name it should be easy for them to appear in the SURBL list. On my side I'll be using SURBL multi on domains submitted to the service to check for spam. I'm hoping that the visibility in twi.bz domains, they're ability to appear in SURBL and my checking of SURBL links will make twi.bzunattractive for spammers. John.

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