On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 8:50:09 AM, Nick Gilbert wrote:
> I think this is well known already(?), but I've just noticed a spammer 
> doing something rather annoying:

> <a 
> href=http://www.imageusa.com/bannerclick.asp?url=http://www.google.com>www.google.com</a>

> This links to Google via an innocent site which has nothing to do with 
> the spammer. (note, obviously Google was not the linked site used by the 
> spammer - I've changed it to ensure this gets though everyone's spam 
> filters).

> Does the SURBL client check parameters of the referenced pages as well 
> as the actual base url?

Yes, the code which uses SURBLs in SpamAssassin 2.63 and 3.0
respectively: SpamCopURI and urirhsbl, have some different
approaches to handling redirection sites like this, but they
do handle them successfully.  There some more information at:

  http://www.surbl.org/faq.html

and

  http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html

Jeff C.
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