Thursday, February 17th, 2005
While going through some old posts tonight I started wondering why many of them have comments turned off. After some time I remember that I installed the MT-CloseComments plugin. I have shut that plugin off so I can have comments again and hopefully some of the anti-spam techniques that I ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Andy mentions a rather interesting list message from Sam Varshavchik, the author of Courier (an open source MTA licensed under the GPL):
> I was wondering if (Yahoo"s) Domainkeys is considered to be implemented in Courier.
No. Yahoo has patent claims on Domainkeys, which are not licensed under GPL-compatible terms.
For the curious, ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Following up on my earlier post about the use of email blacklists for blogs and Andy's comments, Andy and myself started thinking about how to improve blacklists and whitelists for blogs. What we came up with is "Distributed xLists" - in black, white and shades of gray. Instead of following ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
While perusing the news, I came across a rather interestingly titled article at CNET: "Zombie trick expected to send spam sky-high". As many other spam-related stories, this one had an apocalyptic feel to it as well:
According to the SpamHaus Project--a U.K.-based antispam compiler of blacklists that block 8 billion messages ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
Andy's post got me thinking about publishing individual blacklists (something that Jay Allen of MT-BlackList has given up on). So, I put together a simple plugin for MovableType called "MT-Banned-List" that adds tags for generating a list of banned IP addresses. You can download version 0.1 here (just stick the ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
(For MT-Banned-List plugin for publishing the internal MT IP ban list, please see this post)
Overnight I got slammed by two trackback spam attacks to my blog, both lasting about two hours and originating from over 20 IPs. I added all of them to my banned list to prevent further occurrences. ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
John Levine just posted an excellent article from Carl Hutzler of AOL about how the real solution to spam is accountability and action by ISPs on their own outbound traffic. Excellent read.
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
From an AP story (via Dani):
A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law — the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail — is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders. Last week's ruling, which threw out a lawsuit against a New York e-mail ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
I have been seeing reports about Lycos's new anti-spam screensaver the entire week but haven't had a chance to write about it.
The Register originally ran a story a week ago describing a new screensaver from Lycos which sent traffic to known spam sites. The list of sites was taken from ...
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