On Sunday 18 April 2004 04:55 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
come to think of this: have spammers used things like tinyurl yet?
No instances of TinyUrl in any of the some 8,000 spam I'v received in April, but looking in the news.admin.net-abuse.sightings newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...) shows over 300 examples for spam with TinyUrl links.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Cline"
On Sunday 18 April 2004 04:55 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
come to think of this: have spammers used things like tinyurl yet?
No instances of TinyUrl in any of the some 8,000 spam I'v received in
April,
but looking in the news.admin.net-abuse.sightings newsgroup
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF... &q=tinyurl&btnG=Search&meta=group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.sightings)
shows over 300 examples for spam with TinyUrl links.
not all occurrences are from the original spams: sometimes posters to nanas have made the tinurl links.
I clicked on a couple of tinyurl links which were from the original spams and got "terminated for spamming" notices. tinyurl seems to be responsive to spam complaints, which will deter spammers from signing up in the first place.
John
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On Sunday, April 18, 2004, 11:50:17 PM, John Fawcett wrote:
I clicked on a couple of tinyurl links which were from the original spams and got "terminated for spamming" notices. tinyurl seems to be responsive to spam complaints, which will deter spammers from signing up in the first place.
That's excellent news! Thanks for sharing it John. Now if we can get other redirection services to also block spammers....
Jeff C.
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