Linklog Current StatusAt the company I work for the policy for the email addresses of ex-staff members is to accept the mail, then bounce it – one copy to the sender, and one copy to the local postmaster. To me. The spam gets forwarded to me. Y’know, just in case it’s not. When you’re checking through a [...]
The Register reports that the Ministry of Defence sent spam regarding the call-up of volunteer forces in the event of a conflict in Iraq. I checked the spam-bin, and sure enough there it was in all its HTML-email, invalid Message-Id: ugliness. Amusingly the Date: was set to timezone +0100 – since the UK is still in GMT, the [...]
RBL (“realtime black-list”) is a simple yet effective net technology. Much of its power comes from piggy-backs onto the existing DNS infrastructure, automatically giving it many desirable attributes (scalability, distribution, caching) for free. My problem is with the name… RBL lists, despite their diversity, tend to get tarred with the same brush. While many lists contain specific IPs a “punisher” list [...]
ARIN now supports abuse contacts. The new whois doesn’t seem as nice as RIPE, but it’s an improvement.
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