Getting redirection services to block spammers

[Marc Perkel <ma...@perkel.com>]

Ok- once we positively detect and identify that a redirection was used 
for spam - like we have it listed and it scores 30 or so - we could 
generate an email automatically reporting it to their spam abuse address.

Let's say if for example Yahoo were serious about this - they couls set 
to a process to autodisable these urls after a specific number of 
reports. I would doubt that if Yahoo received hundreds of autogenerated 
complaints within a short period of time that they knew was generated by 
Spam Assassin and was triggered by a redirection on their service to a 
spam address - that they could automatically disable the redirect.

If they did that then the spammer would be denied a profit.

I think this would work and redirect services would cooperate with it.

Jeff Chan wrote:

>That's excellent news!  Thanks for sharing it John.  Now
>if we can get other redirection services to also block
>spammers....
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