Third Party dmoz directory spammers

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aodonline

• Jan 4, 2004

• #1

Who do I report a third party to that is spamming there copy of the dmoz directory to.

I have recived serveral in the last day at my site and its getting old.

 

thehelper

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• Jan 4, 2004

• #2

You cannot really do anything about spammers. You can go to spamcop.net and get an account there if you want to report spam email. Dmoz.org does not send spam mail. People who use our data might but we can't do anything about that at all.

 

totalxsive

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• Jan 5, 2004

• #3

There's not much we can do to help you here. thehelper's suggestions are good ones but I'd recommend either ignoring the emails or attempting to report them to their ISPs.

 

shritwod

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• Jan 7, 2004

• #4

I'm making a guess that this is Topsites LLC, in which case we're very much aware of it. You can use a reporting service like SpamCop - http://spamcop.net/ - to report the spam to the ISP and hosting provider.

 

totalxsive

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• Jan 7, 2004

• #5

It could be TopSites or it could be another company which was selling an old copy of the RDF exported to a text file. See http://dmoz.theblob.org/dmoz/journal.cgi/1065206341.html .