On Thursday, October 28, 2004, 3:12:11 PM, Sheldon wrote:

>> This is a good argument for the delayed-scan-and-deliver feature I
>> suggested previously. The porn guys you are probably talking about we
>> call the "mad-lib pornsters". Every day or so they will come out with
>> a brand new set of domains delivering a wide array of porn traffic.
>> Actually, our robots usually manage to pick up quite a bit of it, but
>> they have huge bandwidth behind them so they get quite a bit of
>> content out before the updated rules can go in place.

SK> It is obvious they are using "disposable" domain names. They come in flavors
SK> like gbzqrx.info and so on. By the time my customers check their email,
SK> forward it to me and then I forward it to Sniffer, it is probably 6-24 hours
SK> old. How many millions have been delivered in that time? Ugh...

Luckily we get these in spamtraps almost immediately. If a robot
picks it up then the next outgoing rulebase will catch it. If one of
us picks it up then there may be couple of hours extra (we don't have
a 24-7 Spam-Noc yet) but it will still get nailed soon.

As it turns out, throw-away or not these domains get used for quite a
while. And, as it also turns out many of them come back to life 6-9
months later after dormancy. (These ones get picked up by our deep
scans and reactivated.)

It's a tough problem, but a simple delay will go along way toward
making these throw-away mechanisms useless. Simply don't listen to
anything new until a bit later and the filtering mechanisms will
always have time to react (since they listen to everything in
real-time).

_M


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