On Monday, August 4, 2008, 4:14:27 PM, Ron Guerin wrote:
I ironically now find tighturl.com listed in SURBL as the result effectively being joe-jobbed by some sleazeball promoting a work from home scam and using a tighturl link to a fake removal page, which was blocked by me within the 45th access (and is now probably around 10,000 hits which redirect to a page explaining the inadvisibility of clicking on links in spam or putting your email address into a spammer's removal box).
AbuseButler has yet to respond to mail sent late Saturday night to abuse@abusebutler.com about the matter, and they clearly are not resolving URLs to their destination as I would have expected from a data source used by SURBL.
Just what is the SURBL policy about listing URLs that have not been resolved to their destination, and about the quality of the data accepted into SURBL? I find the lack of a response from AbuseButler to its abuse address an indication that they're not running a responsible or reliable service over there.
- Ron
Please note that the correct contact address for SURBL list removals is whitelist at surbl, except for OB:
http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#removal
Jeff C.