[SURBL-Discuss] another redirector ?

[Jose Marcio Martins da Cruz]

What I do is to check all the URLs present.

On the other side, you can ALLWAYS add some points to the score if you 
find a URL with redirection.


John Wilcock wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:37:17 -0700, Eric Kolve wrote:
> 
>>As well, just because one new redirector is found, doesn't mean the spamming community
>>at large knows about it or knows they need to switch.  Most will continue to use 
>>rd.yahoo.com, g.msn.com, etc. not knowing they need to switch.
> 
> 
> Except that spammers are known to read antispam mailing lists, so you
> can be fairly sure that they will soon catch on. 
> 
> 
>>If the problem of open redirectors becomes endemic, we could have another RHSRBL that 
>>we could look up URLs against to determine whether they are an open redirector. This
>>would tell us whether we should try to resolve the redirect and could change dynamically
>>as we discovered new ones much the same way URLs are added to the standard blacklist.
> 
> 
> That sounds like the way to go - any hardcoded list is bound to come to
> the attention of the spammers sooner or later.
> 
> John.
> 



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