If they're doing 'authentication' or 'hashes' and someone has to generate them for specific URL's, then their 'hash' code will have to be broken before they'll be able to use the rd.yahoo.com again (except for the international ones until they fix them)

william

-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:17 PM To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Michael Radwin blogs about closing Yahoo'sredirectors

On Saturday, July 17, 2004, 1:19:44 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

...

Yahoo! Engineer Michael Radwin blogs about Y! closing their

redirector

...

(not sure if all their country redirectors are closed)

http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2004/07/open_http_redirectors.html

Thats great news, i hope more will follow, OR! start using SURBL (for example) to filter their redirects....

FWIW I added an entry to his blog suggesting they consider denying redirection services to spammers by using SURBLs, as Metamark is doing.

Jeff C.

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