I remember there was some excitement that blogers had code to check links posted against SURBL. Is that still being used? I figured that would be bigger news.
Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.surbl.org 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0400, Chris Santerre csanterre@merchantsoverseas.com wrote:
I remember there was some excitement that blogers had code to check links posted against SURBL. Is that still being used? I figured that would be bigger news.
I'm still using it. In fact I was watching the spammers hit my blogs earlier this week. Hundreds of attempts in a few days, and they all failed miserably, because I added the domain they were attempting on the very first attempt. It inspired me to change the error message for a spam reject to "Rot in Hell, spammer!", which should give you an idea of how much I like the results.
I'm still getting referrer spam. I will likely apply SURBL check to that, too, using the same blacklist. (The check won't stop the referrers from showing up in server logs, but my weblog software also tracks them in a database). (And, yes, these checks do go through a caching nameserver).
As for it being news, if it's just me, it's small news; my software is custom. I don't know if anyone else has actually implemented it, or just talked about it.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Matthew Hunter matthew@infodancer.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0400, Chris Santerre csanterre@merchantsoverseas.com wrote:
I remember there was some excitement that blogers had code to check links posted against SURBL. Is that still being used? I figured that would be bigger news.
I'm still using it. In fact I was watching the spammers hit my blogs earlier this week. Hundreds of attempts in a few days, and they all failed miserably, because I added the domain they were attempting on the very first attempt. It inspired me to change the error message for a spam reject to "Rot in Hell, spammer!", which should give you an idea of how much I like the results.
I should point out that I am using a custom local blacklist, thus using the SURBL protocol but not the SURBL lists. The domains that were spamming me were not in multi.surbl.org at the time I set it up.
I remember there was some excitement that blogers had code to check links posted against SURBL. Is that still being used? I figured that would be bigger news.
I think that the potential is still there for this to be **big** news. It just might take the right combination of getting a blogging technology provider to add it and one or two key bloggers to write about it.
Before I even knew what SURBL was, I was slowly pursuing adapting an open source asp.net Blog technology and selling this as a blog hosting service. I still plan to do this eventually and I'll definately add SURBL checking to comments section. But I doubt I'll get this done before it becomes "big news" elsewhere.
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