RE: Geocities closed

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Mike Cardwell [mailto:spamassassin-us...@lists.grepular.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:54 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Geocities closed Alex wrote: Thought I would pass along that geocities closed up and went home today

RE: Geocities closed

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk [mailto:rich...@buzzhost.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 3:00 a.m. Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Geocities closed I just found this one working: http://uk.geocities.com/midsomerland

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Mike Cardwell
Alex wrote: Thought I would pass along that geocities closed up and went home today: http://geocities.yahoo.com/ Wondering what this means in terms of the geocities SA rules? Would sure be nice to just block them outright at the gateway, but in From/To header and body, no? Why have any

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread LuKreme
On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host their websites on geocities anymore so there's no reason why a spammer would include a geocities url in their spam. May as well just

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host their websites on geocities anymore so there's no reason why a spammer would

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread DAve
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host their websites on geocities anymore so there's no reason

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread LuKreme
On 27-Oct-2009, at 06:42, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host their websites on geocities

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread John Rudd
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:42, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:50 -0700, John Rudd wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:42, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread John Rudd
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:06, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:50 -0700, John Rudd wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:42, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:50 -0700, John Rudd wrote: You're assuming that spammers will perfectly update all existing spam. There might be crud floating around out there for a while to come. On 27.10.09 13:06, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm not assuming anything John. Spam with no

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Dan Schaefer
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:50 -0700, John Rudd wrote: You're assuming that spammers will perfectly update all existing spam. There might be crud floating around out there for a while to come. On 27.10.09 13:06, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm not

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread RW
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:08:20 -0600 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: Why have any geocities specific rules any more if geocities doesn't exist? It's not as if spammers can host their websites on geocities anymore so there's no reason why a

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
I just found this one working: http://uk.geocities.com/midsomerland/midsomerland_indexone.htm so providence would suggest leaving things alone.

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:59 +, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I just found this one working: http://uk.geocities.com/midsomerland/midsomerland_indexone.htm so providence would suggest leaving things alone. The domains still exist. www.geocities.com and uk.geocities.com both redirect at

Re: [sa] Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I just found this one working: http://uk.geocities.com/midsomerland/midsomerland_indexone.htm so providence would suggest leaving things alone. Yes, if you go to the Yahoo FAQ on the close-down, you will find that one option available prior to

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-26 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:15 -0400, Alex wrote: There isn't much on the page detailing what happens to all their data outside of creating a new Yahoo profile or site. According to a story in The Register, Yahoo couldn't care less about the remaining data on the servers and have wiped the

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:15 -0400, Alex wrote: There isn't much on the page detailing what happens to all their data outside of creating a new Yahoo profile or site. According to a story in The Register, Yahoo couldn't care less about the remaining data on the servers