[102121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast discarding email with shortened URLs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sat Jan 26 16:56:03 2008
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:50:45 -0500
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Jeftovic" <markjr@easydns.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <479B7FBA.1090207@easydns.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 26, 2008 1:45 PM, Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
>
> I just got a report that comcast is simply discarding all email
> containing URLs shortened with our easyURL shortening service
> (easyURL[dot]net).
>
> No bounce, no refusal to accept, just accepting and then discarding.
>
> Anybody else confirm this with other URL shortening services or are we
> just the lucky ones?
Yes. I can confirm. And it appears to be *content filtering*. Anything
with a URL containing easyurl.net appears to be getting the ixnay.
-M<
