SpamNet: Razor for the Masses

UCRowerG writes "From CNET News on Yahoo!: "Conceived by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter and open-source developer Vipul Ved Prakash, the company is touting the benefits of democracy, networking and collaboration in the war against unscrupulous e-mail marketers." " Since Prakesh is responsible for Razor, hopefully there will be Linux support as well, but once again I gotta throw my props at Spamassassin which catches over a hundred spam for me each day.

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Re:Spamassassin over Spambouncer

[rw2]

I'm a big fan also, in fact I introduced Taco to it. Folks interested in what the heuristics produce in terms of distribution of SA scores can view a graph of my logs. The three lines are the commonly used thresholds for deciding whether a mail is spam or not. Most folks run at 5, but some that are more paranoid about false positives run at 7 or 10. Myself, I find false positives to be practically non-existent and run happily at five. The missing data is just because I didn't keep statistics on non-spam mails until I had been running for a couple weeks.

Now for a commercial. Craig Hughes has formed a company to bring spamassassin to outlook users . And I'm setting up a hotmail like service at spamassassin.net to help users that don't have the time or ability to setup spamassassin themselves.

LART THE ISPs!

[wowbagger]

The single best thing all of us who know how to run traceroute and whois can do is LART THE ISPS THAT HOST SPAMMERS!

I've been forwarding every spam I get that come from a Verio hosted site, or spamvertises a site hosted on Verio to Verio and their parent company, NTT. I'm using bitch-list.net to do so, since they have a bazillion email addresses for Verio. I make sure the email has the spam attached, and since Verio has claimed the cannot read attachments (***cough***BULLSHIT****cough***) I also paste the mail headers into the message, along with a WHOIS and traceroute showing it to be a Verio customer. When they complain, I tell them "MY message isn't spam - your customer contacted me, so a prior business relationship exists. You want it stopped, stop the spammer."

I won't say it is working, but if 10% of everybody who got these spams did as I do, then Verio's help desks would be so clogged that they couldn't HELP but see the damage on the bottom line.