[SURBL-Discuss] SURBL and listing abuse address

Frank Precissi corvus at vadept.com
Mon Dec 20 22:31:36 CET 2004


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:42:26PM +0100, Nick Askew wrote:

[snip]

> I'm sure that actually fetching the content of the site would work to
> deter people from sending out their URL as spam but it would lead to a
> new problem. Every machine in the world using SURBL (and let's face it
> that should be everyone, it works so well) could be used for a DoS
> attack just by sending an email (OK the domain would need to be in
> SURBL).

Gee, I guess that would be a /very/ unfortunate side effect of this.. :-)
Why are you all looking at me like that? <G>

Frank



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