Yep. I got sick'n'tired about different ways they tried to abuse the service. Any reasonable measures weren't enough. Repeatedly checking blocking lists etc. There's aways a way to insert just a few links, which link to other link shortening services, etc. And then suddenly spam blast those out in email. Which unfortunately according current spam fighting measures, looks for the urls in emails and detects the shorteting service as being the "advertised spam url".
I'm sure that people are familiar with spam problems in this setting. Only effective measure against that would be hard forwarding rate limit, which on otherhand isn't working solution, becuause it would also (almost) immediately block any legimite but popular URLs.
Unfortunately this is the normal state of current Internet. If you try to implement something nice and useful, there are immediately smarms of users looking to abuse your service. What ever service it is. Due to botnets and IPv6, IP address blocking or rate limiting doesn't basically help at all, etc. So there's no simple way to get rid of these problems.
But this is actually quite interesting topic in this spamgourmet setting. If someone has very bright and totally effective yet simple to implement solutions with low false positive rate, I'm very curious to hear about those. Yes, I know, if it would be so simple, we wouldn't need services like spamgourmet in the first place. Because there wouldn't be any spam to fight.
- Thanks
habibie wrote:How can a new user sign up for a 9ox.net account?
If you're talking about email addresses. Then it's enough that you'll just create your Spamgourmet.com account and when using email give 9ox.net instead of spamgourmet.com.
9ox.net (forwarding service) doesn't use accounts. I personally don't like services which require login, because it makes occasional use of services harder. Of course requiring something like Google+ account would be trivial (I already have the code implemented), and could efficiently limit spam, but it's against my believes. Any thoughts about this?
Massive CGN addresses won't make things any easier, because
IPv4 is really low on addresses and IPv6 is not yet widely used.