[pmwiki-users] Spam filtering not cutting it

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote:

> It is trivial for spammers to provide alt3rnate sp311ing 4 drug names, 
> but much harder for them to have an unlimited supply of URLs.

Until they start using tiny url or equivalent services. At first I didn't 
want to mention it in case I gave spammers bad ideas, but as it's in the 
open anyway...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/06/spam_spotted_using_tinyurl.html

The article mentions that tinyurl seem to deactivate spam links once they 
see them (or are made aware of them).

cheers
/Christian

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