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Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles
An anonymous reader writes "Those who are fighting spam will tell you that one of the most notorious spammers out there is Alan Ralsky. Well, the Detroit Free Press has a very interesting article on him. This guy is about as unrepentant as they come, and he's saying he wants to branch out into delivering pop-up spam via the Windows Messanging service present on most Windows boxes. If you sysadmins out there have been wavering about whether to block spam-friendly networks, read this article, then go to The Spamhaus Project and SPEWS and start getting IP ranges to block." Update: 11/25 12:35 GMT by H : Yep, it's a dupe. Nope, I haven't had my coffee yet. -
As the Spam Turns
Anonymous writes "The SBL has added Verio's corporate mail servers to its blocklist which protects nearly 100 million mailboxes, because of the number of spam gangs on the Verio network. Verio also provides connectivity to AS26212, a collection of 9 of the most notorious spammers netblocks. AS26212 - the new spambone? - is also connected to he.net and bbnplanet.net." -
Meet the Spammers
DaveAtFraud writes: "It took a little digging to find an on-line copy of this article that I first saw in my treeware daily newspaper. Thanks to the Salt Lake City Tribune for having it on-line. According to the Spamhaus project, a handful of people are responsible for 90% of the spam that clogs you in box. This is your chace to hear from them and what they have to say is quite interesting. If you don't think the filters and blacklists work, one spammer whines, "My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters." Stopping spam is simply a matter of economics. When its uneconomical to send spam, people will stop sending it." -
License To Spam?
Anonymous Coward writes: "This was posted to spam-l today: what you are looking at is a copy of a contract given to known spammers that says, 'We agree not to nuke you for spamvertizing your sites,' regardless of what the AUP says. It says people penned into these contracts are not beholden to rules against spamming." Sanford could have used one of these. Update: 11/02 5:31 PM by michael : The JPEG has been updated - looks like AT&T isn't really a big fan of spam after all. Good for them. -
License To Spam?
Anonymous Coward writes: "This was posted to spam-l today: what you are looking at is a copy of a contract given to known spammers that says, 'We agree not to nuke you for spamvertizing your sites,' regardless of what the AUP says. It says people penned into these contracts are not beholden to rules against spamming." Sanford could have used one of these. Update: 11/02 5:31 PM by michael : The JPEG has been updated - looks like AT&T isn't really a big fan of spam after all. Good for them.
