[Mimedefang] Catching the porn spams

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Fri Sep 10 10:09:58 EDT 2004


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 09/10/2004 01:37:47 
AM:

> --On Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:06 PM -0400 WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> 
> > So the spammers buy a domain in January along with 999 others, but 
don't
> > actually use it until September.  Hey, it's 9 months old, it must be 
OK!
> > Umm, no.  I think it needs to be based on when it's first used.
> 
> Then you're back to SURBL. Until someone reports it, you can't know it's 
a 
> problem site.

No, this would be in conjunction with SURBL.  This delay on previously 
unseen sender domains would be to give SURBL time to add the spamvertised 
sites to their block lists.



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