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 Ge

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 an

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 geoci

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 dele

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 anymor

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread John Rudd
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:42, 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

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 > 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

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread John Rudd
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:06, 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 >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 05:08 -0600, LuKreme wrote: >> >> On 27-Oct-2009, at 04:53, Mike Cardwell wrote: >> >> >

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 e

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 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 i

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

Re: Geocities closed

2009-10-27 Thread Kelson
Alex wrote: Anyone have an existing account that they could try to access today, and try and send/receive an email? There isn't much on the page detailing what happens to all their data outside of creating a new Yahoo profile or site. They're not getting rid of email accounts, just web: http://

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 tha

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

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