Re: IP not found ... discarding as fake

Jeffery Jones <[email protected]_com> Sun, 14 May 2006 14:16:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 14 May 2006 09:04:57 -0700, "Mike Easter" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>IMO the notification business for spamvertisers is a useless waste of
>time for a variety of reasons.  And, besides, SC notification and
>discovery of the spamvertisers has no real teeth.  All SC should be
>doing is giving the spamvertised sites to sc-surbl and do no notifying
>or resolving.

    This is a key point!  I had noticed the short-lived time of the URLs
and assumed that the Chinese hosters actually took them down after an SC
notification.  More likely, the spammers just rotate to the next one as
soon as they see it show up in sc-surbl or an equivalent URL blocker.

  [ Sorry about the wide word wrap - I had to expand it a while back but
forgot to set it back to something reasonable]