> So the question is how do we tackle this scenario. Either we blacklist > free hosting sites like geocities.com in SURBL and get false positives, > or.... > ...So how do we tackle this ?
My experience with Geocities is that: (1) It often takes them one or two full business days to get a kiddie pron site taken down. These were sites where you instantly know you were looking at 3-12 year olds nudes at first glance at the home page. Egregious cases like this should be taken down in hours or minutes, not days. Maybe they need a special emergency address for reporting this stuff? (2) New sites pop up as quickly as the old sites are taken down. I simply don't have time to keep up. Geocities need to do a better job (3) At least 50% of the e-mails with the term geocities that run through my server is one of these spams (but not all are pron) Having said all of this... Here are some conclusions: (A) We CANNOT list these "free sites" in SURBL because SURBL **MUST** always be "set it and forget it". The minute that this kind of stuff gets listed in SURBL, I'm forced to do much more carefully audit a mountain of SURBL-blocked e-mail which I don't have time to audit! (B) Someone gave me some contact info off line that I will pursue to get this to the attention of someone "higher up" both with Geocities and with law enforcement. Final thought: If these additional avenues don't produce results with a few weeks, I am going to send ALL of my clients an e-mail explaining the situation to them and telling them: "Geocities cannot seem to police their kiddie pron spamming to a reasonable extent and, therefore, and mail going through my server which mentions the word "Geocities" will now be quarantined for review and will be released if legitimate within 24 hours. Therefore expect delays for any e-mail that mentions Geocities" (I'll include the stats in this e-mail to back me up.) Rob McEwen
