[SpamCop-List] Re: Strangeness? SC "not resolving" working URLs heavily today.

[Berny]

"nospam" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:BDDDB4A2.12E8B%nobody at spamcop.net...
> in article cp7fs5$i4c$1 at news.spamcop.net, Mike Easter at
MikeE at ster.invalid
> wrote on 12/8/04 10:07 PM:
>
> > R. Asby Dragon wrote:
> >> So far today:
> >> 4 out of 8 submiisions have come back as "Cannot Resolve" the
> >> spamvertised URL; but I can open them here.  All of them are CN
> >> hosted sites. They *are* "slow to open"; looks like things aren't
> >> well on the routing.

well it's getting real bad today, I've given up trying to reparse also as
that seems to take forever, (if i "View entire message" and go back it takes
about 2 minutes to come back, and moreoften than not still w/o linls
resolved.

Strangely sometimes they'll resolve one time and a few minutes later not, as
if SC is not cacheing any more, or there is a too short timeout in SC's
local cache of DNS names


also I see more and more pains being taken by spammers to prevent link
resolution, the most extreme being one hotmail specialist who has everything
in C&P this URL into your browser now.


I don't understand why, they're hosted on bulletproof servers, cnc-noc
hanafo etc.

I think there must be some good commercial Miltering software out there that
is tagging onto spamvertized URLS that they are trying to get around. I
can't imagine any other reason. The hosters don't have a record of caring,
quite the contrary.