[SURBL-Discuss] Blogs still using SURBL?
Matthew Hunter
matthew at infodancer.org
Thu Sep 30 22:27:23 CEST 2004
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:34:07PM -0400, Chris Santerre <csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com> wrote:
> > I remember there was some excitement that blogers had code to check links
> > posted against SURBL. Is that still being used? I figured that would be
> > bigger news.
>
> I'm still using it. In fact I was watching the spammers hit my
> blogs earlier this week. Hundreds of attempts in a few days, and
> they all failed miserably, because I added the domain they were
> attempting on the very first attempt. It inspired me to change
> the error message for a spam reject to "Rot in Hell, spammer!",
> which should give you an idea of how much I like the results.
I should point out that I am using a custom local blacklist, thus
using the SURBL protocol but not the SURBL lists. The domains
that were spamming me were not in multi.surbl.org at the time I
set it up.
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