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Spam Haters Given Right of Reply

Posted by Zonk on from the hitting-back dept.

rk_cr wrote to mention an Israeli technology firm which has set up a system to allow harried email users the right to reply in force. The system "batters spam websites with thousands of complaints. The plan is to fill order forms on spam websites offering pills, porn and penile health tonics with complaints about the products advertised for sale in junk messages. The plan has been criticised by other anti-spam workers who say it amounts to vigilantism."

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  1. dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/18/121 4226&tid=111&tid=1

  2. "Other Anti-Spam Workers"? by Caveman+Og · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sheesh! Slashdot has gotten really lame.

    "Other anti-spam workers" is none other than John Levine, Ph.D, co-author of the BEST SELLING INTERNET BOOK OF ALL TIME (I kid you not) "The Internet for Dummies" (Now in its ninth edition). Some of you cretins need to read it.

    In Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jeremy Jaynes Dr. Levine served as an expert witness for the prosecution. His testimony helped send Jaynes to prison for nine years.

    At the second annual Conference on Email and Spam Levine presented a technical paper on his experiences with greylisting.

    Dr. Levine is the chair of the IRTF Anti-Spam Research Group. He's a founding member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. He runs the Network Abuse Clearinghouse.

    "Other Anti-Spam Worker" indeed.

    Take a good look at Blue Security's product. I think you'll see that it's little more than an HTTP DDoS tool. BlueSecurity claims that it's okay to DDoS spammers, and that they make very sure that only spammers are DDoS'd (although their careful not to call what they do a DDoS).

    I'm given to understand that they moved their hosting to Israel when Verio terminated their service for violations of Verio's acceptable use policy. Verio doesn't allow folks to host denial of service tools on their network (nor will any normal ISP do so).

    Someone should ask BlueSecurity about their legal threats against Everyone's Internet for attempting to do the same.

    These are not nice people. The only difference between them and the normal crop of script-kiddie miscreants, is that they have found venture capital.