> -----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 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 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 delete the rules...
Or, on the other hand, Spammers may see it as an opportunity - assuming that people will be doing just that - removing rules against Geocities. Hmm. I wouldn't be doing that any time soon - after all there is nothing stopping Spammers from faking geocities originating addresses or other header info. Cheers, Michael.
