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  1. On Win 98 Re:3Dtop one of my favorites .... by leoaugust · · Score: 1 · on Simon Phipps Looks At 'Looking Glass'

    Yes, it is an old program. It still works for me, but then I am still using Win 98 and Win 2000 on my computers. Never moved to XP.

    I just tested the download from the link that I provided and it still works for me.

    There are more details here http://www.wirehub.nl/~technica/3dtop/home.html but, unfortunately, the Developer moved on to create some rather "new age-ish" biofeedback programs, rather than concentrating on 3Dtop ... So, this program is no longer supported. The link above gives an old version of the program, while the majorgeek link http://www.majorgeeks.com/download186.html lets you download a newer and much more powerful version.

    If you have access to an older version of Windows, do have a look at the program. It is worth it.

  2. Open proxies by Luminous+Coward · · Score: 1 · on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays
    Nowadays, most of the spam I get comes through open proxies, not open relays. I think most mail transfer agents now come with relaying turned off by default, and the administrator must explicitly turn it on.

    I don't know if Wirehub is representative, but in this RBL, open proxies clearly outnumber open relays.

  3. Re:SpamAssasin in large corporate use? by winnetou · · Score: 3, Interesting · on NYTimes: Tangled Up in Spam
    I was wondering how many large corporation are using SpamAssasin. And if not, why not?

    Reasons for not using SpamAssassin are the CPU and bandwidth costs. Refusing e-mail from known spam sources is cheaper and (more importantly) does not give away information about which addresses are valid.

    After checking the source IP address against lists such as Wirehub, Osirusoft (despite its name not only a list of open relays) and/or some other lists, almost no spam will be accepted.

    IP space is finite and, even better, allocated in ranges. Continued spam from (or spamvertizing a website on) an IP address is a very good indicator for more spam from the IP range.

  4. Re:"Interstate commerce"? What about international by sakeneko · · Score: 5, Informative · on Spammer Fined $2,000 Plus Costs in Washington
    I applaud the US judical system for approving and using such laws in America, but the whole world isn't the USA. We need a world-trade law, perhaps mandated by the WTO, to prevent spammers from breeding.

    It's been a long day -- I read this and had a mental picture of a law that required all spammers to use condoms.... ;)

    On a more serious note, international law isn't up to dealing with spam and spammers yet, and I don't think it will be any time soon. It can't even deal with terrorism and terrorists effectively. :/

    Of course, there's always relays.osirusoft [osirusoft.com] - a cross-referenced database of nearly all DNS blacklists.

    Osirusoft is an excellent resource, but it doesn't contain anything even close to all of the available anti-spam blacklists. MAPS is pretty irrelevant these days, but don't forget the DSBL , Five-Ten-Sg , Monkeys.com , RFC-Ignorant , and Wirehub , all of which are publicly queryable and none of which are mirrored by Osirusoft.

    There are a whole bunch of other blacklists out there, as well. Not all are well maintained and not all have consistent policies about which IP ranges or domains get listed and how a domain can be removed, though, so I stick to the established ones.

  5. Blocked by IP class? by HutchGeek · · Score: 1 · on Internet Vigilante Justice, SPAM, and Copyrights

    I've run into a sort of related problem. My ISP I use at home now uses a Danish reference list to help filter spam. Somehow, my work mailserver turned up on it. The reason? It seems to have a dynamic IP address. Granted, my work mailserver hangs off of a business DSL account which has a block of 16 IPs. Its behind my router/firewall running NAT. the reject message from my ISP is as follows : .. the remote server gave us this error response ... 554 Service unavailable; [xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] blocked using dynablock.wirehub.net, reason: Dynamic IP range listed by Wirehub! Internet DynaBlock - http://doema.wirehub.nl/error/errors.html#dynabloc k So now I'm off to have fun to try to convince these people that just because it MAY be a dyanmic address, even though its a block assigned by my ISP, that they should remove me. Thier other solution? Find a relay server!!!

  6. Re:They're treating it like spam. by Krojack · · Score: 1 · on ISP Bans RIAA to Protect Its Customers

    Here is something like that. Wirehub! Internet Blackholes Explanation Blackholes is at blackholes.wirehub.net and uses 127.0.0.2 A records. Its purpose is to block SMTP connections from persistent spam sources, abusers scanning for open mail relays, abusers behind raped relays, open proxy servers, and IPs of spamvertizers and of spamvertized websites. Link: http://basic.wirehub.nl/blackholes.html

  7. ORDB is the Answer by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 3, Informative · on Collateral Damage in the Spam War
    Quote:
    ...but I still have to ban domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, mail.com
    My e-mail address was recently harvested by a spammer. I started getting SPAM from the listed domains but the only problem was the mail didn't show up as from yahoo, hotmail or mail in my mail log. Turns out the spammer was forging the return address and sending through an open relay. So I learned about how to set up sendmail to filter incoming mail through the Open Relay Database (ORDB). That particular spam problem has now disappeared. It helps when you run your own mail server but if I can figure this out in less than a day then a paid sysadmin at an ISP, company or school should also be able to do it.

    You can find out more about the ORDB here and this site has very simple instructions for setting up sendmail to use the ORDB filter. Sendmail.org has quite a bit of additional stuff you can do to filter SPAM and still let legitimate e-mail through. ORDB also has solutions for people who don't run their own mail server and just connect someplace with a mail client to get their mail.