Re: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-03 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:50 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:39:26PM -0700, List Mail User wrote: ... For the last week, I feel like I should receive a paycheck from Geocities! All I've been doing is submitting damn redirect web pages. I even did some testing and found

Re: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Igor Chudov wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:29:09PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Igor Chudov wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:08:23PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: It looks like tinyurl is now being abused by spammers the same way geocities was. I just got a porn spam using it. Hm, is

RE: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow) In any case, I think that they could do something very simple, which is to set up several secret spam traps, and watch for geocities addresses appearing in them, and they could then quickly remove those pages

RE: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Chris Santerre wrote: In any case, I think that they could do something very simple, which is to set up several secret spam traps, ... I'm fairly certain geocities is using all of: 1) pre-emptive filters to attempt to flag suspicious registrations and uploads. 2) filters to auto-group

RE: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread List Mail User
... For the last week, I feel like I should receive a paycheck from Geocities! All I've been doing is submitting damn redirect web pages. I even did some testing and found some sites listed in NANAS as far back as 5 days that were still active. The source code for these pages use at most 3-4

Re: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread Igor Chudov
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:39:26PM -0700, List Mail User wrote: ... For the last week, I feel like I should receive a paycheck from Geocities! All I've been doing is submitting damn redirect web pages. I even did some testing and found some sites listed in NANAS as far back as 5 days that were

Re: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread jdow
From: List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... For the last week, I feel like I should receive a paycheck from Geocities! All I've been doing is submitting damn redirect web pages. I even did some testing and found some sites listed in NANAS as far back as 5 days that were still active. The

Re: Tinurl being abused by spammers.. (leo/badcow)

2006-05-02 Thread jdow
From: Igor Chudov [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:39:26PM -0700, List Mail User wrote: ... For the last week, I feel like I should receive a paycheck from Geocities! All I've been doing is submitting damn redirect web pages. I even did some testing and found some sites listed in