Hi Jeff, At 22:57 06-04-2005, Jeff Chan wrote:
Sure there is. Do they like having the servers hit with millions of spam redirections? Those cost resources and don't get them legitimate click throughs or whatever. It's just abuse of their systems by spammers.
They may not like their servers being hit by spam redirections but they won't take action until they notice that the server is too slow.
Many of the organizations that have been contacted about their open redirectors being used in spams have attempted to fix them with varying degrees of success. But most realize it's abuse and wasting their resources and at least try to do something about it.
We have seen the Zdnet fix. It's a classic "where technology meets business" fix.
Regards, -sm