false fraud positives with domain shorteners

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Nov 17 21:57:48 GMT 2011


on 11/17/2011 11:41 AM Joolee spake the following:
> My problem was that it activated on stuff like groupon mails containing
> something like: <a href="http://groupon.com/action/blaaa">Print your photos
> with makeyourownphotoalbum.com <http://makeyourownphotoalbum.com>!</a>
> To counter the removal of the url hiding protection, I've added a few filters
> to SpamAssassin to add high scores for stuff like <a
> href="http://...">https://...</a> or <a href="http://.....html/.php">bank-name
> or website</a> (Got only 4 big banks that are used for phishing.)
>
> I think I've contacted the mailinglist before for that problem but the the
> answer was, as it almost always is, that all misbehaviour is "by design" and
> "should not be changed".
>
I never said it shouldn't be changed, I just said it was doing what it was 
designed for... If you want to code and test changes, Julian would probably 
look at them when he is free




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