Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy

Phoneline spammer redux

There looks to be a rise in UK spam advertising “prank lines”. If you’re going to complain, then as well as the usual abuse desks, you might want to send a copy to ICSTIS who have an online complaint form. The company that was spamming a “secret admirer” phone line promo last year (Flirt Love-Box) was fined and banned for [...]


jargon: snowshoe spamming

Spotted an emerging bit of jargon today: snowshow spamming A spamming technique where mail is sent from a wide area of IP addresses (such as a /24) in order to avoid tripping any threshhold that would cause a single IP address to be blocked (for example: the metrics used by spamcop).


It’s more than annoying

At 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 [...]


Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Spammer…

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 [...]


Blackmail is such an ugly word

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 [...]


Spam

ARIN now supports abuse contacts. The new whois doesn’t seem as nice as RIPE, but it’s an improvement.


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