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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:13:34AM -0400, Mike Joseph wrote:
> The major problem I see with this is the need to verify that the
> spamvertised site actually requested or paid for the spam. After all,
> what's to prevent me from spamming in the name of xyz.com just so I can
> see them shutdown? More importantly, you need evidence to shut a customer
> and being spamvertised alone is not necessarily sufficient.
Just to say that this is not hypothetical, before we eventually got
permanently whitelisted on spamcop, I would routinely get spamvertised
website complaints on open source projects hosted on sourceforge.net
Spammers would either list open source projects URLs in their spams for
various reasons, or the spam would contain the URL of an open source project
(like razor.sourceforge.net, squirrelmail.org, or something like that)
The most distressing part is that all those reports were supposedly reviewed
and approved by humans before being sent.
Sigh...
Marc
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