[SURBL-Discuss] Re: [SURBL-Announce] ANNOUNCE: Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamCopURI 0.20

Eric Kolve ekolve at comcast.net
Sun Aug 1 10:39:47 CEST 2004



I am fine with 20.  Any other comments?  If I here nothing else we 
will go with 20 random.  I like that since it protects against
the attack where a spammer could frontload an email with
legit hidden links and present their link last.

--eric


On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 12:39:41PM +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> Jeff Chan wrote:
> 
> > In some ways it's kind of clean to copy the a similar 20
> > random setting that SA 3.0 is using by default [...]
> 
> I think a limit must be present to prevent DoS attacks on SURBL. This
> limit should have a built-in default setting (20 sounds reasonable to
> me), because many users will simply use the SpamCopURI defaults.
> 
> So, to protect SURBL from overload, I kindly and politely ask for Eric
> to make the changes as soon as time allows. Thank you!
> 
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