Ok- once we positively detect and identify that a redirection was used
for spam - like we have it listed and it scores 30 or so - we could
generate an email automatically reporting it to their spam abuse address.
Let's say if for example Yahoo were serious about this - they couls set
to a process to autodisable these urls after a specific number of
reports. I would doubt that if Yahoo received hundreds of autogenerated
complaints within a short period of time that they knew was generated by
Spam Assassin and was triggered by a redirection on their service to a
spam address - that they could automatically disable the redirect.
If they did that then the spammer would be denied a profit.
I think this would work and redirect services would cooperate with it.
Jeff Chan wrote:
>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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for spam - like we have it listed and it scores 30 or so - we could
generate an email automatically reporting it to their spam abuse address.
Let's say if for example Yahoo were serious about this - they couls set
to a process to autodisable these urls after a specific number of
reports. I would doubt that if Yahoo received hundreds of autogenerated
complaints within a short period of time that they knew was generated by
Spam Assassin and was triggered by a redirection on their service to a
spam address - that they could automatically disable the redirect.
If they did that then the spammer would be denied a profit.
I think this would work and redirect services would cooperate with it.
Jeff Chan wrote:
>That's excellent news! Thanks for sharing it John. Now
>if we can get other redirection services to also block
>spammers....
>
>Jeff C.
>
>
>
>