There was a post not long ago on a spammer forum explaining this "Geocities Redirects Hosting system". It costs a spammer just $100/week to "host" his site on these redirectors, and they have a system that automatically creates and rotates Geocities accounts to meet demand.
Interestingly, they mentioned that Yahoo have started putting ads alongside some of their redirection sides and that they might be profiting from it.
- Guy.
-----Original Message----- From: discuss-bounces@lists.surbl.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.surbl.org] On Behalf Of Eric Montr?al Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 17:26 To: Jeff Chan; SURBL Discussion list Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] GeoCities site list
Jeff Chan wrote:
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At the time of writing there are 2,175 live sites in our list, which is a pretty big number. GeoCities remains the #1 spamvertised domain in the spam we receive. What're your directions on how to tackle this phenomenon?
I would recommend forwarding them to abuse@yahoo.com with an explanation of where they came from, etc. Yahoo does read their abuse mail.
That's a waste of time.
They only remove the sites after at least 72H (if at all), well after their 'useful' life.
Their spam support service really rocks !
If you want to see how easy it would be to pre-screen and throw away spammy sites have a look at : http://nospam.mailpeers.net/alive_spammy2.txt
AOL did it, Tripod did it, and spammers moved away.
It's not a technical problem, it's a 'pink contract' problem.
Regards
Eric.
Jeff C.
Don't harm innocent bystanders.
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