RE: Geocities (Spammers, Joe Jobbers, & Pron Spam)
Over the past few months, I've had an enormous amount of problems with e-mail which either:
--was spam advertising a geocities hosted web site --was child-pron spam advertising a geocities... --was one of the previous two, but a joe jobs against me
(interestingly, the joe jobs against me started just AFTER I began reporting the child-pron spams... I wonder if my complaint e-mails to geocities were "shared" with the wrong people?)
I know that Geocities does police their system and they do kick off spammers and kiddie-pron. However, it is getting to the point out of all the mail coming to my server which contain a geocities address, at least half of these fit into one of these categories. Also, new geocities sites involved in this behavior pop up just as fast at the old accounts are terminated.
(BTW - one common tactic is for the homes page to still be the initial splash page and the actual child pron content is then "buried" inside. The Geocities admins need to know this and "dig deeper" to keep this stuff out on the front end of the process.)
Maybe if enough of the right people get this message, Geocities will clean up their act? Any suggestions?
Rob McEwen