Jeff Chan wrote:
On Sunday, January 29, 2006, 7:26:02 AM, Eric Montréal wrote:
It's not a technical problem, it's a 'pink contract' problem.
Except that Geocities accounts are free.
Maybe they get ad impression money or something, but they don't get payment from the spammers.
It is my understanding that pink contract means: "contract from an Internet service provider to a spammer exempting the spammer from the usual terms of service prohibiting spamming."
It usually involves money but I think it's not very likely here (can't rule that out either). The service being offered for free or for a fee to non spammy customers does not prevent the same service from being sold to spammy with added 'pink' clauses.
However, I think this is more of a mutual benefit thing. Spammy is free to use the service for his redirections and Yahoo gets a huge brand exposure for it's Geocities trademark.
As I wrote earlier, as long as the recipient of the spam thinks that Geocities is an unwilling victim of the spammer, the effect of such widespread brand exposure is good for them.
Changing that perception would put an end to it.
A few media outlets reporting about Yahoo's continued unwillingness to solve the issue and you can bet what was impossible for more than a year will be solved in less than a day !
Eric.
Jeff C.
Don't harm innocent bystanders.
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