On Thursday, September 9, 2004, 1:50:15 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote:
John Lundin wrote to SURBL Discussion list:
Finally got around to running geturi 0.5 on some recent submitted FPs and ham.
Excellent!
I have permission to forward the original messages if needed.
codefeed .com -0.2000 (1)
Yes, personal site. Just guessing, but probably listed due to joe-jobbing someone's email address @codefeed .com.
gittigidiyor .com -0.2500 (1)
The first, from a java newsletter blog ref, has no NANAS hits. Created Feb '03. I can't read the language on the second, from a quoted sig in a MySQL newsletter, but it has one NANAS hit and was created in Feb '00. Probably not controversial.
It's Turkish, and I'd agree they do look legit. It *looks* like an auction site or something... so it could have been seen in spams similar to eBay auction spams that go around. (Come check out my auction! :-)
destinationsite .com -3.0000 (1) ntcr .us -0.3333 (1)
These two are. Both are from a Jupitermedia Web Events newsletter. And yes, the guy who submitted it signed up for 'em. I already asked. Both with netcreations RPs. First registered Jan '98, second Nov '03, so they aren't fly-by-night. (Crawl by night?) destinationsite has seventy-eight widely varied NANAS hits, and their web page redirects to postmasterdirect .com, describing them as, "The most trusted source of 100% opt-in email customer acquisition solutions." ntcr .us has forty-three less varied NANAS hits, site unviewable with my browser. (I sent the latter in once before for a DS hit, but it's in WS now.)
Sounds reasonable.
And from personal email is a possibly worse pair... from a local linux UG newsletter that quotes a marketpro computer show flyer:
emailfactory .com and emf0 .com (apparently same folks), being used as a web bug and unsub address, respectively. 183 and 22 NANAS, created oct '98 and feb '03. "Precision opt-in email marketing tools."
Unfortunately, I know at least one other person who is (or was) subscribed to the mailing list for this show, which comes through here regularly. You choose if you want to hold your nose and remove 'em.
Looks like they should indeed be removed from WS
Thanks for your research John and Ryan. I am holding my nose and whitelisting all of them.
Jeff C.