MailScanner ANNOUNCE: Phishing net updates

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 14 16:53:01 GMT 2005


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John Wilcock wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> If you add a significant number of sites to your
>> phishing.safe.sites.conf file, then towards the end of the month please
>> send me your list (inline, not as an attachment please, it's easier) and
>> I will add any new ones to the list.
>>
>> Don't bother taking a lot of time to only send your extra additions (but
>> feel free if it's easy), as I can merge in the lists very quickly
>> anyway.
>>
>> Please send the updates to
>>    phishing at mailscanner.info
>
>
> Isn't this going to make rather a lot of work for you, reviewing all the
> submissions to ensure that cunning phishers don't submit a
> legitimate-looking redirector that they can abuse later, once it's got
> onto your whitelist?
>
> Or will you only be accepting submissions from known and trusted
> MailScanner users?

I'll just ignore anything that looks dodgy. There isn't much more I can
do. Hopefully the number of additions will be relatively small anyway, I
don't expect to be inundated after the first month or two.

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