On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 6:32:27 AM, Christian Larsen wrote:
Den 13. sep. 2006 kl. 15.07 skrev John Wilcock:
Just spotted this one, on both black.uribl.com and ab.surbl.org - it's a very widely used French-language URL-shortening service.
I'd say this is a definite FP.
But then again, if spam email uses minilien.com for masquerading evil redirects, then it's the site owner's problem. There is an explicit coverage on this topic on the SURBL.org site.
Redirection services such as tinyurl.com and (my own) memurl.com looks up if the destination hosts are blocklisted, and so should minilien.com
If we regard this one as a false positive, then it's free access for spammail that uses the minilien service.
I suggest we notify the site owner and let him act accordingly.
-- Christian Stigen Larsen, http://csl.sublevel3.org
Yes, that's true, but at the same time we generally don't blacklist redirection services as that could cause false positives. Christian, would you please try to contact the site owner and refer him to:
http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html
In the mean time we will remove this domain from our blacklist.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.