[SURBL-Discuss] Re: Open redirector @yahoo

Terry Sullivan terry at pantos.org
Wed Feb 9 15:50:28 CET 2005


Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

>Obviously open redirectors like this are not really handy. 
>Well, for spammers they are, but ...
>
>Anyone with contacts at Yahoo?

Based on conversations I've had, Yahoo is aware of this issue, but they 
believe (or at least profess) that there are one or more compelling 
reasons to leave these services active.

Of course, it's a trivial thing to ignore redirectors completely simply 
by parsing URLs back-to-front, instead of front-to-back.




More information about the Discuss mailing list