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 -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key