Some of these may be minor redirection sites being abused.
One operator of such a site contacted us bemoaning the abuse and also contemplating shutting it down due to it.
If only these URL redirectors checked the target URL in URIBL/SURBL the first time it gets submitted and also during the runtime, every time it gets accessed, it should reduce the problem immensely. I guess plain laziness to combat spam ain't going to work ;)
cheers, skar.
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 4:40:28 AM, opencomputing opencomputing wrote:
Some of these may be minor redirection sites being abused.
One operator of such a site contacted us bemoaning the abuse and also contemplating shutting it down due to it.
If only these URL redirectors checked the target URL in URIBL/SURBL the first time it gets submitted and also during the runtime, every time it gets accessed, it should reduce the problem immensely. I guess plain laziness to combat spam ain't going to work ;)
cheers, skar.
Some of the redirection sites do use SURBL data to check whether the sites should be allowed:
http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.
Jeff Chan wrote:
Some of the redirection sites do use SURBL data to check whether the sites should be allowed:
In that case, whoever doesn't use SURBL data to check the target URL should be at least greylisted? That way, people can choose to use the greylists or not and whitelist particular domains in the greylist, if they need it.
cheers, skar.
On Thursday, September 28, 2006, 3:06:11 AM, opencomputing opencomputing wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
Some of the redirection sites do use SURBL data to check whether the sites should be allowed:
In that case, whoever doesn't use SURBL data to check the target URL should be at least greylisted? That way, people can choose to use the greylists or not and whitelist particular domains in the greylist, if they need it.
There's no SURBL greylist, just blacklists.
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.
Jeff Chan wrote:
In that case, whoever doesn't use SURBL data to check the target URL should be at least greylisted? That way, people can choose to use the greylists or not and whitelist particular domains in the greylist, if they need it.
There's no SURBL greylist, just blacklists.
ouch, that's URIBL. Anyway, any plans for greylists in the future for these kind of sites/redirectors?
cheers, skar.
On Thursday, September 28, 2006, 3:25:42 AM, opencomputing opencomputing wrote:
ouch, that's URIBL. Anyway, any plans for greylists in the future for these kind of sites/redirectors?
There are no plans for a greylist. We're only interested in catching hard-core spammers. Please see:
http://lists.surbl.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-September/002102.html
Jeff C. -- Don't harm innocent bystanders.
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