[SpamCop-List] Re: Why will not SC report http://uk.geocities.com/ ?

[spamcop]

On 8/21/05 1:09 PM, in article deacf0$vfk$1 at news.spamcop.net, "Mike Easter"
<MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote:

> spamcop wrote:
>> As an example RE:
> www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z798388600z0d1c69ce0572e7c70090d5004320ed4bz
>> 
>> Why will not SC report http://uk.geocities.com/ ?
> 
> SC may or not try to resolve URLs it has deobfuscated.  When it tries
> to, it may or not be able to resolve URLs which are otherwise
> resolvable.  If you tinker with an unresolved URL, you may gain
> information.
> 
Maybe so BUT usually it states it "can't resolve"  In cases like these all
it states is:

Resolving link obfuscation
 http://uk.geocities.com/stock_market_miracles

And then silence.  Note that there is no "link obfuscation" in any of the
sources as they're all simple text/plain and no escape sequences.

> You can put that URL directly into the parser and SC will resolve it to
> 66.218.77.68 and provide reporting addresses, so that means the URL /is/
> SC resolvable.
> 
> Reporting addresses:
> mail-abuse at yahoo-inc.com
> postmaster at yahoo.com
> 
> Some theorize that the parsing algorithm might have load-induced
> priorities, but no one in charge of the algorithm has explained the
> nuances of some of the above 'may or may not' differences.
> 
Doubt it as SC can identify the URL

> Paid SC reporters can perform such an operation and use the addresses as
> additional notifies;  free reporters would have to manually notify if
> they wanted to notify about the spamvertiser.

No different if paid or not paid. I tried and got "abuse at yahoo.com does not
wish to receive user-copied reports."

I am rather sick of yahoo allowing bots to auto signup on geocities and
getting flooded with geocities link spams.

Tom