Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

2018-02-26 3:07 GMT-03:00 David B Funk : > > Just be careful how you do that "expand redirections until no more > redirections" or you may get caught in a spammer trap. > > If you're going thru a professional redirect site like goo.gl or bit.ly > you're probably

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

On 2/26/2018 12:55 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, David B Funk wrote: Just be careful how you do that "expand redirections until no more redirections" or you may get caught in a spammer trap. This is why the DecodeShortURLs plugin has an explicit limit of 10 lookups (and

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

2018-02-26 10:41 GMT-03:00 Dianne Skoll : > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:07:54 -0600 (CST) > David B Funk wrote: > > > So my bet is that the spammers are crafty enough to check things like > > browser referrer, cookies, etc to detect/differentiate

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Hi everybody, I have an opt-in mailing list through MailChimp, and follow all best practices for my monthly emails. Unfortunately, every time I send out a list, I'm getting my fingerprint marked by Razor as spammy. SpamAssassin advice is: "You're sending messages that people don't want to

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, David B Funk wrote: Just be careful how you do that "expand redirections until no more redirections" or you may get caught in a spammer trap. This is why the DecodeShortURLs plugin has an explicit limit of 10 lookups (and penalizes such with a total of 8 points).

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

> On Feb 26, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Kevin A. McGrail > wrote: > >> DecodeShortURLs has been on my list of must-have plugins for years, so >> I was a little surprised it took so long for someone to mention it >> in this thread. > Yeah, my firm is going to look at

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

> Hi Guys! We provide an URIBL that already have a script in Perl to expand > redirections until no more redirections: I would be uneasy to follow such redirections on a production email system (as opposed to eg a spamtrap system). You are likely „confirming“ live email addresses to the

Re: Your "Have I been pwned?" multi-domain search

haveibeenpwned.com has been an interesting source of data for me as I've been researching more about compromised firms coming through our data streams. Regards, KAM

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:07:54 -0600 (CST) David B Funk wrote: > So my bet is that the spammers are crafty enough to check things like > browser referrer, cookies, etc to detect/differentiate a browser vs a > link-checker. Yep. You need to fake your User-Agent (not