On Thursday, February 17, 2005, 1:52:24 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
(1) Are there legitimate "business purposes" for ebay to have such a redirector in the first place?
(2) If so, are there legitimate reasons for such a redirector to EVER show up in legitimate e-mails?
(3) If not, does anyone know of a "clearinghouse" page where ALL such types of redirectors are listed so that rules could be built to block e-mails containing these (using rules-based blocking)? Also, are there already SA rules for such?
IMO The correct answer is for eBay not to have an open redirector or for them to protect it better, for example as Matthew suggests.
We could ask them follow the lead of other redirection sites and use SURBLs to check the URIs:
http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."