[SURBL-Discuss] FP: minilien.com

Chris Santerre csanterre at MerchantsOverseas.com
Thu Sep 14 15:35:46 CEST 2006


I had delisted them until I saw this post. I like Christians train of
thought. I know he has contacted them. Based on what they do, I'll either
leave it listed or remove. 

--Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Stigen Larsen [mailto:csl at sublevel3.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:32 AM
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> Cc: uribl-discuss at lists.maddoc.net
> Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] FP: minilien.com
> 
> 
> 
> Den 13. sep. 2006 kl. 15.07 skrev John Wilcock:
> > Just spotted this one, on both black.uribl.com and ab.surbl.org -  
> > it's a very widely used French-language URL-shortening service.
> >
> > I'd say this is a definite FP.
> 
> But then again, if spam email uses minilien.com for 
> masquerading evil  
> redirects, then
> it's the site owner's problem.  There is an explicit coverage 
> on this  
> topic on the
> SURBL.org site.
> 
> Redirection services such as tinyurl.com and (my own) memurl.com  
> looks up if the
> destination hosts are blocklisted, and so should minilien.com
> 
> If we regard this one as a false positive, then it's free access for  
> spammail that
> uses the minilien service.
> 
> I suggest we notify the site owner and let him act accordingly.
> 
> --
> Christian Stigen Larsen, http://csl.sublevel3.org
> 
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