geocities spam, why isn't it caught

Michele Neylon michele at BLACKNIGHT.IE
Tue Aug 23 08:45:09 IST 2005


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Remco Barendse wrote:

> Strange that SURBL won't list them because they are a legit site. I 
> thought it was possible to block based on URLS given, not just domain 
> names? Most teenagers do not send their new geocities homepage to 10 
> million people so I guess if a url passes a certain number of hits it 
> could safely be blacklisted?

No. Go and read the listing criteria for SURBL.

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