[Mimedefang] Big spam

[Andrew J Caird]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Joseph Brennan wrote:

>
> While I'm writing, here's an interesting new URL obfuscation in
> another spam seen today.  We've all seen the gimmick with @.  I've
> never seen * before.  The effective URL is what's after the *.
>
> <a href="http://srd.yahoo.com/drst/bleeker/*http://www.8u7hb.com/in/">
>

  I wonder how long Yahoo will let people use their redirect service for
  such purposes, and how they will prevent it's abuse (perhaps requiring a
  certain referrer tag?).
--
andrew