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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org> on 2005/02/23 07:39:10 UTC

Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: Spammer Anti-SURBL tactic

On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 6:19:06 AM, Robert Brooks wrote:
> David B Funk wrote:
>> I'm seeing a new spam varient that is clearly designed to get
>> past SURBL. It is an HTML message that contains many (50~100)
>> 'invisible' links; links that have no target text, just:
>> <A href="http://garbage.sitename.tld"></A>

>> Is it time to create rules to penalize large numbers of 'invisible'
>> links?

> it would also be good to discard pointless links before querying 
> surbl's, not sure how easy that is going to be to code though

Yes, there is a SpamAssassin bugzilla with a feature request to
ignore unclickable URIs:

  http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3976

Jeff C.
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