Add the nofollow tag to your links in the HTML code and spammer won't benefit from their spam campaigns. Many major logs, wikis, guestbook programs have started this practice.
They probably are, but resources that deal with abuse should grow proportionally with size, if you try to cut corners in that department, as in the case of UUnet, you end up with a bad reputation, and hopefully, a whole lot of IP address blocked. I know from experience when I was manually reporting spam, back in the day when the amount still permitted it, they took months of complaints sometime to drop a spammer, and it was usually due to being blocked by Spamhaus or Spews. Aren't the internet arm of Worldcom anyway? You see where they get their code of ethics.
Spam would not be a problem if all ISPs dealt efficiently with open proxies and spamvertised sites.
This script kiddie could have been a cool hacker if he attacked spamhaus or other spam related companies instead. Now he is just a stupid teenager that annoyed us for an hour or two.
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Add the nofollow tag to your links in the HTML code and spammer won't benefit from their spam campaigns. Many major logs, wikis, guestbook programs have started this practice.
They probably are, but resources that deal with abuse should grow proportionally with size, if you try to cut corners in that department, as in the case of UUnet, you end up with a bad reputation, and hopefully, a whole lot of IP address blocked. I know from experience when I was manually reporting spam, back in the day when the amount still permitted it, they took months of complaints sometime to drop a spammer, and it was usually due to being blocked by Spamhaus or Spews. Aren't the internet arm of Worldcom anyway? You see where they get their code of ethics.
Spam would not be a problem if all ISPs dealt efficiently with open proxies and spamvertised sites.
Spamhauses, as in rogue or clueless ISP hosting spamming companies. Nobody likes spam, not even spammers.
This script kiddie could have been a cool hacker if he attacked spamhaus or other spam related companies instead. Now he is just a stupid teenager that annoyed us for an hour or two.