On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:02:46AM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > Then, since all of my clients are businesses, they broke the law and > don't seem to care. > > In fact, since they 'blast spam', they have no idea who they are > spamming anyway.
Do have a care to understand what's going on, before you assign blame too freely. UK Geocities, like Geocities in the US, is a free (ad-supported) personal webpage hosting site. If you look at the headers of these spams, you'll find that these mails aren't coming from UK Geocities. If you look at the sites of the actual URLs (which I'm not sure I'd recommend) you'll find that the ultimate websites they're in support of aren't hosted on UK Geocities either. The MO of at least one large spam gang now is to create "springboard" entry pages on free hosting sites; when you hit that URL, you get a page or two which ultimately redirect you to another host where the real site being spammed for is. One that I know of particularly targets Geocities, I assume because they've got some automated signup process. I've seen dozens of URLs and pages on Geocities in a spam run, all with the exact same content. They're wor If you could figure out a process for automatically forwarding these to the Geocities abuse department, one per URL, it would be a good thing; I've been able to manually forward some of these in the past and that has helped them close down some of the sites quickly. The contact I eventually reached at Yahoo (owner of Geocities) said they're working on a process for trying to detect these "springboards" and close them automatically before they can be spammed for, but haven't got one yet. The reason I say I'm not sure I'd recommend looking at the sites is that in the past this MO has been used mainly to support child porn and rape porn sites. Quite unpleasant content, and in many countries you might be skirting the law just by looking at the site to see what it is. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect "My own personal theory is that this is the very dawn of the world. We're hardly more than an eyeblink away from the fall of Troy, and scarcely an interglaciation removed from the Altamira cave painters. We live in extremely interesting ancient times. I like this idea. It encourages us to be earnest and ingenious and brave, as befits ancestral peoples; but keeps us from deciding that because we don't know all the answers, they must be unknowable and thus unprofitable to pursue." -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/