From: David Ford [mailto:da...@blue-labs.org] > > I feel fairly sure in saying that most mailing list software, > newsgroup software, and communication software in general, > will allow you to preemptively add people to your address > book, subscription lists, etc. Every router and switch out > there allows forged packets through them, should we lambast > the hardware manufacturers even though numerous > accompanying handbooks recommend good practice > configurations? > > Google has been very quick to deal with issues of spammers > every time I have brought it up. > > > On 02/04/10 02:56, Jim Mercer wrote: > > "here, have some free guns. oh, by the way, its probably > > bad if you go around shooting people, so don't do that." > > > > it is starting too look to me like google is quite happy to > > host spammers. > > > > or, at best, doesn't care if spammers use them to host > > their services.
I've found gmail is the current favored account amongst forum spammers; I have to assume they are doing nothing about abuse complaints because I find it quite unlikely that the forums I operate just happen to be the first ones that get abused by accounts signed up with gmail addresses. I report each one to their abuse address, probably goes to bit bucket. gmail is probably still 'beta' though so it's ok to let spammers use that too. David
