Yahoo!'s lack of resolution in Geocities spam forwarding site creation

[rowan]

The problem with Geocities allowing people to create web sites that are 
relays to Spamvertised sites has been around since at least 2005 from 
what I can tell.  Since the spammers are routing through open relays, 
bot nets or some other varying mechanism the only way to eliminate the 
trash from my inbox was a procmail recipe which /dev/nulled  anything 
with a geocities.com link in the body.  I had tried complaining to 
Yahoo! but there is never a response from domainadmins at yahoo-inc.com.  
The volume of this type trash continues to climb so I figured I would 
forward a copy to Yahoo! so they could share my pain.  This way they can 
see that spammers have created a new site and shut it down, IF they even 
read mail sent to domainadmins at yahoo-inc.com.  Below is the procmail 
recipe I use.  NOTE make sure if you put this in your /home/.procmailrc 
file you do not put your regular email address in the BCC line as that 
will cause an infinite loop.  The BCC line is not necessary, I just have 
it there so I can see that the problem is ongoing and Yahoo! is being 
advised of the problem.

:0 B
* geocities.com
* ! ^X-Loop: *@vrod\.mydomainname\.com
{
        VERBOSE=yes
        TMPFILE=tmp.$$
        TOADDRESS=`formail -uReceived: | formail -xReceived: | sed -e 
's/^.*for <//' -e 's/>;.*$//'`

        :0 ac:
        $TMPFILE

        :0 ah
        | (formail -rA "X-Loop: postmaster at mydomainname.com" \
        -I "Precedence: junk" -I "From: postmaster at mydomainname.com" \
        -I "To: domainadmins at yahoo-inc.com" \
        -I "BCC: myotheremail at mydomainname.com" \
        -I "Subject: Violations of your terms of service" ; \
        echo "More spamvertisement relays from Geocities.com based web 
sites" ; \
        echo "below is their trash:" ; \
        echo "" ; \
        cat ./$TMPFILE) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t 
-f'postmaster at mydomainname.com';rm -f $TMPFILE

        LOGFILE=$HOME/spam
        :0
        /dev/null
}

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