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tinyurl.com/2z8ghb). Using something like a redirection service can significantly reduce
the size of a URL, making it more memorable and more manageable. Unfortunately, it also
makes a great gateway for spammers and phishers who want to hide or obfuscate their
URLs.
Some of these redirection companies include TinyURL, ShortURL, and so on.
However, as you might expect, this causes quite a headache for services like Spam URL
Realtime Blacklists (SURBL) that parse the provided URL for known spam sites. Since the
redirection services essentially "launder" ...