(A) At least 95% of spam is sent using fraudulent "From" addresses, most of them being addresses (like yours) taken often from the same list being spammed to. None of the major blocklists ever block based on the "From" domains in spams, nor indeed do we pay any attention to "From" addresses on spams. What gets blacklisted is the sending IP address or the IP of a web server hosting the spammer's website advertized in the spam. There has never, ever, been a case of a major blocklist listing someone based on the "From" address of spams, therefore this is not something to worry about.
(B) Thousands of people worldwide are bombed every day with 'undeliverable' bounces due to spammers using their addresses as the "From". The way to handle it is to never accept mail for non-existent usernames (anyone accepting mail for anyuser@ these days is nuts) and use a filter that can block on text strings such as "From: *daemon*", "Subject: *returned*|*undeliverable*", etc. Then, simply ignore it, the spammer will move on to using a different address tomorrow.
Jamie, you most certainly DO have a conflict of interest which leads you to write slanted material bashing MAPS without questioning what Peacefire's Bennett Haleston tells you to say. Haleston jumped into a puddle so he could cry "Look everybody! Big bad brother pushed me into this puddle!".
Peacefire's host Media3 is the worst spam service host on the Internet (see: TOP 10 Spam Support ISPs), the net's worst stealth spam outfits are right there on Peacefire.org's server. Media3 is a spam support service that makes money supplying 'bullet-proof hosting' to stealth spam outfits and _refuse_ to stop doing so, that is why the server's IP space had to be placed on the RBL. It was placed on the RBL *two months* before Media3 moved Peacefire on it to place Peacefire (the "anti-blocking" site) in the line of fire.
I can assure you that Media3's owner (who is an old friend of Bennett Haselton in case you weren't aware) knew in March 2000 that the class C would be placed on the RBL because *I* told him and I also cc'd him a copy of the RBL nomination. That's *6* months before Peacefire was moved onto the already-blocked server. (Bennett even told you he knew the server was blocked because once they moved onto it then then had to find a way to send email out through a different server because that one was blocked.)
What you're trying to pass off as an "allegation" of Media3 moving Peacefire onto an already-RBL'd server is NOT an allegation but fact. It's also fact that Media3 took MAPS to court at the same time to get the server's IPs released from the RBL - and LOST - which made Media3's owner even more determined to get back at MAPS. Media3 used Peacefire as a pawn *with* Bennett's tacit help because Bennett saw a chance for press coverage for Peacefire. Each time Media3 loses a court case against MAPS a couple of days later Peacefire sends out a 'press release' deliberately misrepresenting the facts to suit Bennett's "I hate MAPS" agenda. An agenda of which you and Slashdot are an unwitting part thanks to the ease with which you write anything Bennett tells you to write without checking the facts.
An 'Anonymous Coward' said:
Look at lindfords own 'stats'. He claims that UNet causes 30 Billion spams a year. He also says that UUnet sends 2 Million spams a day. Tht just does not add up.
It sure doesn't. Read it again, properly. 2 Million spams is the number that hit Pipex' servers. I said UUNET send _far more_ than 2 million spams per day. I can assure you that UUNET spammers currently bulk 3 billion spams per year - divide that figure by days/year to get the average daily amount.
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(A) At least 95% of spam is sent using fraudulent "From" addresses, most of them being addresses (like yours) taken often from the same list being spammed to. None of the major blocklists ever block based on the "From" domains in spams, nor indeed do we pay any attention to "From" addresses on spams. What gets blacklisted is the sending IP address or the IP of a web server hosting the spammer's website advertized in the spam. There has never, ever, been a case of a major blocklist listing someone based on the "From" address of spams, therefore this is not something to worry about.
(B) Thousands of people worldwide are bombed every day with 'undeliverable' bounces due to spammers using their addresses as the "From". The way to handle it is to never accept mail for non-existent usernames (anyone accepting mail for anyuser@ these days is nuts) and use a filter that can block on text strings such as "From: *daemon*", "Subject: *returned*|*undeliverable*", etc. Then, simply ignore it, the spammer will move on to using a different address tomorrow.
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org/
Jamie, you most certainly DO have a conflict of interest which leads you to write slanted material bashing MAPS without questioning what Peacefire's Bennett Haleston tells you to say. Haleston jumped into a puddle so he could cry "Look everybody! Big bad brother pushed me into this puddle!".
Peacefire's host Media3 is the worst spam service host on the Internet (see: TOP 10 Spam Support ISPs), the net's worst stealth spam outfits are right there on Peacefire.org's server. Media3 is a spam support service that makes money supplying 'bullet-proof hosting' to stealth spam outfits and _refuse_ to stop doing so, that is why the server's IP space had to be placed on the RBL. It was placed on the RBL *two months* before Media3 moved Peacefire on it to place Peacefire (the "anti-blocking" site) in the line of fire.
I can assure you that Media3's owner (who is an old friend of Bennett Haselton in case you weren't aware) knew in March 2000 that the class C would be placed on the RBL because *I* told him and I also cc'd him a copy of the RBL nomination. That's *6* months before Peacefire was moved onto the already-blocked server. (Bennett even told you he knew the server was blocked because once they moved onto it then then had to find a way to send email out through a different server because that one was blocked.)
What you're trying to pass off as an "allegation" of Media3 moving Peacefire onto an already-RBL'd server is NOT an allegation but fact. It's also fact that Media3 took MAPS to court at the same time to get the server's IPs released from the RBL - and LOST - which made Media3's owner even more determined to get back at MAPS. Media3 used Peacefire as a pawn *with* Bennett's tacit help because Bennett saw a chance for press coverage for Peacefire. Each time Media3 loses a court case against MAPS a couple of days later Peacefire sends out a 'press release' deliberately misrepresenting the facts to suit Bennett's "I hate MAPS" agenda. An agenda of which you and Slashdot are an unwitting part thanks to the ease with which you write anything Bennett tells you to write without checking the facts.
Steve Linford
Director
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
An 'Anonymous Coward' said: Look at lindfords own 'stats'. He claims that UNet causes 30 Billion spams a year. He also says that UUnet sends 2 Million spams a day. Tht just does not add up.
It sure doesn't. Read it again, properly. 2 Million spams is the number that hit Pipex' servers. I said UUNET send _far more_ than 2 million spams per day. I can assure you that UUNET spammers currently bulk 3 billion spams per year - divide that figure by days/year to get the average daily amount.
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project