This is a forwarded message From: Fred spamassassin@freddyt.com To: "Jeff Chan" jeffc@surbl.org Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 3:30:00 PM Subject: ANTI-SURBL technique used by spammer
===8<==============Original message text=============== Well, I brought this up for a couple of reasons, it can be used for many reasons, GOOD and BAD.
Your idea sounds good, it might also be used for some other heavy data files we host for whatever reason.
I brought it up due to the possible bad uses of this technology. It's possible for a spammer to use this service for free bandwidth for images and other content (flash, etc).
This is just one of those things to hold on to and keep an eye out for, if the word get's out, the spammers might try and abuse it. From the message boards, most people don't care what it's used for, except those using 40 GB per day in illegal movie downloads cause they choose to be a mirror.
Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400 mailto:info@i-is.com
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 2:22:38 PM, Fred wrote:
Jeff, Are you aware of http://freecache.org ? Take a look here if not: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/12/1635205.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 Thanks!
Frederic Tarasevicius
Thanks for the info Fred. Sounds like akamai for the rest of us. :)
Should we publish the surbl site with it?
Jeff C.
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Hi!
I brought it up due to the possible bad uses of this technology. It's possible for a spammer to use this service for free bandwidth for images and other content (flash, etc).
This is just one of those things to hold on to and keep an eye out for, if the word get's out, the spammers might try and abuse it. From the message boards, most people don't care what it's used for, except those using 40 GB per day in illegal movie downloads cause they choose to be a mirror.
Are you aware of http://freecache.org ? Take a look here if not: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/12/1635205.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 Thanks!
We might tell them about SURBL and ask to implement caching only for non listed domains. Others implemented things like that allready. Jeff, can you take that actionpoint?
Bye, Raymond.
On Thursday, May 20, 2004, 2:32:24 AM, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
Hi!
I brought it up due to the possible bad uses of this technology. It's possible for a spammer to use this service for free bandwidth for images and other content (flash, etc).
This is just one of those things to hold on to and keep an eye out for, if the word get's out, the spammers might try and abuse it. From the message boards, most people don't care what it's used for, except those using 40 GB per day in illegal movie downloads cause they choose to be a mirror.
Are you aware of http://freecache.org ? Take a look here if not: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/12/1635205.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 Thanks!
We might tell them about SURBL and ask to implement caching only for non listed domains. Others implemented things like that allready. Jeff, can you take that actionpoint?
Yes, I asked them to deny services to spammers:
I am asking freecache.org to consider blocking access to their services for spammers, as metamark is doing for redirection using SURBL data.
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=15861&PHPSESSID=6c01104d6c16aedb5de1716b0dcbf004
Poster: jeffchan Date: May 19, 2004 06:07:59pm Forum: freecache Subject: Please consider blocking spammers Please consider denying spammers access to freecaching, as metamark.net is now doing:
http://www.surbl.org/news.html
4/30/04: Ask Bjørn Hansen of develooper.com is using SURBL data to block spammer domains in the Metamark Shorten Service URI shortening and redirection service. This is the first use of SURBL data to prevent abuse of a redirection site that we've heard of! Great going! Ask explains his motivation as: "I mostly did it to make it less likely that I'll have to deal with abusers of the service manually. Hopefully the other redirection services will realize that benefit soon as well."
Jeff C.
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Raymond Dijkxhoorn