Re: Geocities Reporting

Kenneth Brody <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:44:59 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.help
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike Easter wrote:
> 
> Mike wrote:
> > I know that the parsing problem with geocities.com has been
> > discussed, but has anyone noticed that when you run a geocities URL
> > through the single line parser that you get the message that
> > [email protected] redirects to [email protected] ?  Note that
> > there is not ".com" in this URL.  So it's not surprising that the
> > next line says that network-abuse@cc-yahoo-inc bounces.  Can the
> > ".com" be put back in the redirect target?
> 
> You would think so, but for some reason that I don't fathom, the deputy
> sez that yahoo has to do it.
> 
> Beats me.

Well, it now shows:

    Using best contacts [email protected]
    [email protected] redirects to [email protected]

My understanding is that the problem was that Yahoo had the wrong data in
the abuse.net database, which is something that SpamCop does not control.
Hence, the need for someone at Yahoo to fix it.  (Short of modifying
SpamCop's parser to special-case "cc.yahoo-inc" to fix it.)

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