On Monday, March 30, 2009 10:15 PM +0200 KarstenBräckelmann
<guent...@rudersport.de> wrote:
There's a reason, pastebins (just like URL shortener services) are
implementing spam filtering and various other spam/bulk counter-
measures. That's because they have been abused by spammers.
Creating a dump to put your spam is like an invitation to spammers, a
free pay-load hosting service to point URLs in spams to. That's exactly
what happened, and subsequently the services got listed on RBLs while
they have been abused.
Hence a good reason to host by an anti-spam organization, with big red
letters across the top saying THIS IS SPAM, DON'T BUY FROM THESE PEOPLE.
With a little clever coding you could force random spam-clickers to click
through a few pages of discouragement before getting to the posted file.
Why would it be bad to add the site to a URIBL? This would be like a
honeypot, and you could score a huge value for your own site created just
for the purpose.
