>
> > 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 that are mentioned in the spams, if
> > they meet some other criteria (such as having _javascript_ or external
> > links).
>
> Yes.. and are you saying they haven't done this? Geocities is
> not so stupid as
> to not have already done this.
>
> 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 abuse reports and auto-suspend
> accounts with high
> complaint volume.
>
> 3) use of spamtraps to auto-suspend accounts.
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 different techniques. Not very hard to filter for on new pages. Hell, I think 100% of the redirected URLs were listed in URIBL black!! Every freaking morning I see more geocities redirects. Whatever they are doing, could be a lot better.
Checking on ones from Sunday, I see they are still running, even after being reported. At this rate, the geocities redirect are lasting longer then new domains.
Chris Santerre
SysAdmin and SARE/URIBL ninja
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