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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Igor Chudov <ic...@Algebra.Com> on 2006/05/08 22:10:03 UTC
spams regarding financing of residence and GeoCities
I heard some people opine that GeoCities is doing a lot to combat
spam.
I received a recent spam about "financing of residence" that sent me
to a Geocities page.
Just how difficult would it be to block similar kinds of pages?
Not too difficult if they wanted to. So, I am not sure if they are
really trying to stay on top of the game.
i
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Re: spams regarding financing of residence and GeoCities
Posted by Benny Pedersen <me...@junc.org>.
> - yahoo have a legal issue to solve. Their sales guys get as much
> customers as they can, and you're asking their tech guys to stop spammers? This can't work.
yes it can, if spammers bay there own domains and not harwaste others domains like yahoo and others
just my ignoreing cent :-)
Re: spams regarding financing of residence and GeoCities
Posted by mouss <us...@free.fr>.
Igor Chudov wrote:
> I heard some people opine that GeoCities is doing a lot to combat
> spam.
>
> I received a recent spam about "financing of residence" that sent me
> to a Geocities page.
>
> Just how difficult would it be to block similar kinds of pages?
>
similar to what? Ther eare so many different spams, and when you stop
some, new hydra-spams get born.
> Not too difficult if they wanted to. So, I am not sure if they are
> really trying to stay on top of the game.
>
This has been hashed to death heare and elsewhere (and will certainly
get rehashed every now and then:).
- whether it's easy for yahoo to stop this or not is debatable. you and
I have a lot of ideas, but (at least) mine were never tested in such
large environments, and I know that untested ideas are just ideas.
- just because a site have a js redirection or whatever attribute
doesn't mean they have to shut it down (we are not trashing any mail
that matches any SA rule, are we? if things are complex with SA, why
would you want things to be easier on the web?). I have rarely seen any
good surprise from any ISP I've seen. In the contrary, I only seen N
hours debugging just to prove that it was coming from the ISP. now I
also worked for companies that sold sw to ISPs, and except for very few
good people, things are worst.
- if you don't get much legit mail with geocities links, just add rules
to block them.
- yahoo have a legal issue to solve. Their sales guys get as much
customers as they can, and you're asking their tech guys to stop
spammers? This can't work.