Amazon: "Effective Java, Second Edition" (May 2008)

[Ted]

http://easyurl.net/EffectiveJava

 

[Mark Space]

http://easyurl.net/EffectiveJava

Woot! Spam that I like.

 

[Evans]

Woot! Spam that I like.  

Please Mark, follow Lew's example and do not quote the same url again
- don't help the spammer.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

http://fake.easyurlmot/EffectidveJava

[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

Nice munging! Since it only takes a single altered
letter to kill URLs, I would have gone with..
<http://easyurl.not/EffectiveJava>

( And yes - I've thought *way* too much about this..

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Don't worry, there's no "tag=" in the URL. It appears that the spammer
was too stupid to include a referral code in the link. He isn't going
to make a dime.

Can he still get via the referrer tag ?

(I can not remember the conclusion when we had the discussion with
Paul D)

Arne

 

[Dave Miller]

Can he still get via the referrer tag ?

(I can not remember the conclusion when we had the discussion with
Paul D)

Arne

Easynet is a URL redirect service which he's set to add his Amazon
account information.

 

[Mark Space]

Well, except that undoubtedly the original URL redirects through some
sort of link/click counter, granting the poster some financial reward
for posting their spam here.

Well, his easynet link resolves to this, which has no referrer parameter:

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683

But I see your point, it could have. The link from Sun's site seems
much safer, I'll use that. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Evans]

In all this time we still haven't heard back from "Ted".  That in itself is
telling.  Wouldn't an honest person have chimed in by now?

Ahh, don't bother anymore, 'Ted' is already banned from the newsgroup.
Click on his profile.

 

[Lothar Kimmeringer]

Ahh, don't bother anymore, 'Ted' is already banned from the newsgroup.
Click on his profile.

You're using Google Groups that gives you this false feeling.
Newsgroups != Google Groups, you're just using a news2web-
gateway that works like the rest of the news2web-gateways:
It doesn't


Regards, Lothar
--
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Always remember: The answer is forty-two, there can only be wrong
questions!

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Do you mean the Referrer HTTP header? I *highly* doubt that Amazon
would pay for that, since it's trivial to fake.

I would consider it less work to change something in the URL
than to change referrer.

Arne

 

[Dave Miller]

I guess I should have been more precise. The amazon.com URL to which
Easynet redirects doesn't have a referral code in it.

sherm--

In that case...

if we can get the name of his village we should send a condolence card
to the elders - it must be tough trying to run a village with your idiot
spending his time on usenet.