On Thursday, April 7, 2005, 1:11:26 PM, J. Fowler wrote:

I posted to the CNET financial message boards on Yahoo and got this response:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mb?s=CNET

==== Re: CNet supporting spammers NOT* *Folks,

We're aware of the abuse, and are shutting down the URLs as we learn of them. We are NOT supporting spammers or phishers.

Stephen Howard-Sarin VP, ZDNet.com ===

I posted the following to that board:

Re: CNet supporting spammers NOT by: jeffreychan 04/08/05 12:37 am Msg: 50041 of 50041

It appears that CNet/ZDNet's current solution is to block spammers and phishers from your redirector, but only ones that have been specifically reported. The problem with that approach is that spammers need only register another domain for $5 or $10 and they can abuse your redirector again. It happens that spammers register dozens or even hundreds of new domains per day, so that's no big deal to them, and the abuse continues.

If you'd like a more dynamic solution consider denying access to spammers and phishers based on realtime SURBL data, as other redirectors are currently doing:

http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html

Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."