[Info-vax] Reporting spamer links on comp.os.vms to google.

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <nvkCm.96019$la3.26581 at attbi_s22>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> writes:
>I notice that comp.os.vms has picked up a spammer going by Obaid that is 
>posting between 1 and 3 spams a day for a web site.  The newsgroup 
>headers state to report this to "X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse at google.com"
>
>If you are using Thunderbird to read the info-vax mailing list or 
>comp.os.vms newsgroup, it has a feature that can inconvenience such 
>spammers.
>
>If you right click on the displayed link, it will take you to a page for 
>reporting phishing where you enter in a captcha and it will submit the 
>site as a phishing site.
>
>For non-firefox users, and for reporting malware sites, the following 
>URLs can be used.
>
>http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
>
>http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
>
>Google and Thunderbird state that this information is being shared with 
>other companies so that attempts to visit the links will either be 
>flagged or blocked depending on the what software the user has for 
>browsing or security and if they try to reference the link turned up by 
>a google search.

Unfortunately, Google makes it too easy to abuse this for denial of service.
Once blacklisted by this mechanism, it's very difficult to get removed from
it.  I know one corporate site that had to involve the scum-of-the-earth to
intercede and coerce Google with legal rhetoric to get Google to remove the
blacklisting.

Auralmooon.com was blacklisted by a disgruntled former member.  I took many
emails and contacts to Google to get the blacklist removed.

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