Hi,
Looks like, after months ignoring the problem, a miracle finally happened at Yahoo / Geocities tonight ...
Yesterday, my list of alive Geocities spammy sites was more than 350 names long.
Tonight it's down to ... 14 Geocities sites ! All others have been shutdown http://nospam.mailpeers.net/alive_spammy.txt
Just for fun, here is the RIP list: http://nospam.mailpeers.net/rip_spammy.txt
Could you guys verify that the sites marked as 'Closed' in the ruleset are 403/404 from your location too ? http://nospam.mailpeers.net/subevil.cf
Here is a one liner bash command line script to check them all (don't worry, wget in spider mode downloads nothing) :
wget http://nospam.mailpeers.net/rip_spammy.txt -Orip.txt;for i in $(egrep -i '^http:[0-9a-z/_-.]*\bgeocities\b[0-9a-z/_-.]*$'<rip.txt);do echo -n "$i - ";wget -T3 -t3 -w3 --spider -U"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" $i 2>&1|grep 'awaiting'|cut -d'.' -f4|cut -d' ' -f2-;done;rm -f rip.txt
Are they all 403 or 404 ?
Would be too bad if they ... just banned my spider! (I connected from 3 different places, got the same results)
Anyways, keep sending those spammy URLs to spamslut@mailpeers.net , but it seems like someone at Yahoo finally decided to act before being caught in a fine Spamassassin plugin or some ugly wget loops ...
Let's see if that was a one time action or if they'll keep cleaning the mess until the spammers move out of their servers and back to places where SURBL will be able to toast them ...
Waiting for your feedback, as usual ;-)
Eric.