Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Monday, March 30, 2009 10:15 PM +0200 KarstenBräckelmann > <guent...@rudersport.de> wrote: > >> There's a reason, pastebins (just like URL shortener services) are >> implementing spam filtering and various other spam/bulk counter- >> measures. That's because they have been abused by spammers. >> >> Creating a dump to put your spam is like an invitation to spammers, a >> free pay-load hosting service to point URLs in spams to. That's exactly >> what happened, and subsequently the services got listed on RBLs while >> they have been abused. > > Hence a good reason to host by an anti-spam organization, with big red > letters across the top saying THIS IS SPAM, DON'T BUY FROM THESE > PEOPLE. With a little clever coding you could force random > spam-clickers to click through a few pages of discouragement before > getting to the posted file. > > Why would it be bad to add the site to a URIBL? This would be like a > honeypot, and you could score a huge value for your own site created > just for the purpose. > Well, if it was in URIBL/SURBL, you couldn't use it to post samples to this mail list, which is kinda the purpose, isn't it?
This list is filtered by SA, because it runs through the same servers as all the apache lists. A single URL that is listed in multiple URI blacklists IS enough to kill the message, which is why using pastebin became common practice here. but if your proposed "spambin" can't be used when posting to the list, because it's in all the URI blacklists, then it doesn't really serve any purpose, does it?
