Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932356AbWA1QdE (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:33:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932306AbWA1QdE (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:33:04 -0500 Received: from z2.cat.iki.fi ([212.16.98.133]:457 "EHLO z2.cat.iki.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751469AbWA1QdC (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:33:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:33:01 +0200 From: Matti Aarnio To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: geocities.com URLs are now banned.. Message-ID: <20060128163301.GK3927@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 958 Lines: 22 ... which is sad, because we have some people who do have legitimate and relevant-to-linux contents in those URLs, but this spam trouble using geociries URLs is getting rather excessive. Our rejection pattern matches: ". geocities . com /" (case insensitive, and minus spaces) so if you need to point an URL there, do so with extra spaces. No idea if spammers will adapt by adding spaces, and entice people to fix URLs... If that day happens, then perhaps the only way to get email back into usabe form is to classify spamming and spamming support (in USA and China, very least) to be equally bad thing, as terrorism and have equally severe punishment... /Matti Aarnio -- sad because of used harsh methods.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/