[spam-stopper] Redirection Domains & A and idea for a self-check API

[rich boakes]

Earlier today I spoke with Eric Hammond of 
notlong.com after receiving a topside of spam 
that was using notlong as a redirection service; 
he's very quickly killed off the misused URLs 
(thanks Eric).

Services such as notlong would benefit greatly 
if they could access a list of spammed URLs so 
they could disable them before they can be 
profited from, and it seems that Akismet.com is 
well placed to provide such a service.

Eric had all kinds of other questions when I 
mentioned that akismet was able to stop the spam 
before it got through; questions I can't answer 
such as:

> What specifically is known to akismet.com?  The specific notlong.com 
> URLs or the long URLs where they get redirected?  Are you sure 
> akismet.com is not simply blocking all notlong.com URLs?

If anyone can furnish Eric with non-speculative 
answers then I'm sure he'll be delighted; but in 
the meantime I thought I'd moot the idea of an 
API for checking if your domain has been used 
for spam.

Rich
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