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Re: [Asrg] URL shorteners, spam and DNS

2011-08-22 14:19:38
On 8/22/11 8:02 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:

Is there some reason the spam filter can't just send a head request to
bit.ly and find out the destination URL? That wouldn't require any
cooperation among the various parties to this potential transaction, and
cooperation is always in short supply in this field.

Yeah!
This way smaller redirectors abused by real spammers are simply DDoSed
out of business and stop being an issue!!!
+1!  ;-)

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