[Spambayes] spammers abusing the yahoo redirector.
Tim Peters
tim.one at comcast.net
Mon Jan 19 12:52:05 EST 2004
[Anthony Baxter]
> At work, we're seeing a whole pile of URLs in spam of the form
>
http://rd.yahoo.com/hbillgbyijbd/*http://www.naturalgrowthmeds.com/rmvefwfew
jlk/
>
> This is (ab)using the rd.yahoo.com redirector to attempt to foil
> the filters.
Several redirectors are commonly used in spam.
> We should probably put a simple rule in to fix this.
Sorry, I'm not following: what's broken? The URL above generates this set
of features now:
'url:*http'
'url:com'
'url:hbillgbyijbd'
'url:naturalgrowthmeds'
'url:rd'
'url:rmvefwfewjlk'
'url:www'
'url:yahoo'
so we're not missing any of it.
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