I was a alpha tester on Shadango about a year ago actually. When I signed up I used "alphatest" in the promotional code box and I got a free paid account. It might still work, definitely a great service.
Analogy: Certain groups are upset with the amount of rugby being played over in Austailia. So they lobby congress and have a bill passed against it. But wait! They're still playing rugby in Austrailia.. what happened, we passed laws against it!?
Most of the spam does NOT come from the US. It's retarded to assume that these spammers all over the world are expected to change their core business model because the US passes some law.
"But wait, I know that a lot of the ringleaders behind all this MUST be in the US". Sure.. but the reason they can hide themselves so well is because they're breaking a dozen other more serious laws in the process of sending out their crap. CANSPAM is seriously the least of their worries.
The spam situation in the world right now is one of those things we'll tell our grandchildren about some day.. as someone growing up under globalization will laugh at the 'crazy' notion that two individuals on the same internet weren't governed by the exact same set of laws.
So anyway, until full globalization is upon us (hey.. I guess the one perk is that it'll cut down on spam), your best bet is to upgrade your filters and use Shadango.com. In case any of you haven't heard yet, Shadango allows you to check all of your accounts from one interface (imap, pop, aol, y!, hotmail, etc), PLUS if filters ALL of them for you in real time. I seriously did not believe it worked until I tried it.. I've actually had the first spam-free week since the mid 90s. Check it out.. it works.
I think that laws can't hurt things...but i also know that technology certainly helps things. I actually was a beta-tester for shadango.com about 6 months ago. I've been using it ever since and my inbox has been virtually spam-free. I don't know if spammers just don't know about it yet or if their filters are just that good.
Plus it's got a bunch of nifty options like a file manager, disposable email addresses, and it's got 20MB of space.
Am I the only person that remembers an idea generated by some
anti-spam commissioned think tank, which came up with the idea of
putting reverse MX records into zone files?
Basically, this approach would allow one to specify a list of
domains that were allowed to relay mail. For example, Mail
Service A would add an RMX record that specified mailA.com Then,
whenever email was delivered to Mail Service B that claimed to be
from @mailA.com, B would check the RMX record to confirm that the
delivering server resolved to a domain that did in fact have
permission to deliver email for mailA.com.
Elegant, efficient, and perfectly reverse-compatible (no RMX
listing would allow anyone to relay email for that domain). And
this would pretty much wipe out forged domains on email. Why has
this not become a standard?
As just a test of the possible efficiency of such an approach, I
worked at Shadango.com for awhile and we tested out the option of
rejecting mail if it wasn't coming from the domain that the email
claimed on the "from" line. You'd be COMPLETELY blown away at
the effectiveness of this. I believe Shadango is currently
testing it again on their production servers, and I have only
seen a handful of outlying cases when email ends up getting
rejected. Seriously.. so anyone that doesn't believe how
effective this can be, go sign up for a Shadango account (it's
free) and see for yourself how much spam just disappears.
I really think this is the solution to spam.. force all of the
spammers into the light by making them honest in their email
headers.
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I was a alpha tester on Shadango about a year ago actually. When I signed up I used "alphatest" in the promotional code box and I got a free paid account. It might still work, definitely a great service.
Cheers,
Alan Steele
Analogy: Certain groups are upset with the amount of rugby being played over in Austailia. So they lobby congress and have a bill passed against it. But wait! They're still playing rugby in Austrailia.. what happened, we passed laws against it!?
Most of the spam does NOT come from the US. It's retarded to assume that these spammers all over the world are expected to change their core business model because the US passes some law.
"But wait, I know that a lot of the ringleaders behind all this MUST be in the US". Sure.. but the reason they can hide themselves so well is because they're breaking a dozen other more serious laws in the process of sending out their crap. CANSPAM is seriously the least of their worries.
The spam situation in the world right now is one of those things we'll tell our grandchildren about some day.. as someone growing up under globalization will laugh at the 'crazy' notion that two individuals on the same internet weren't governed by the exact same set of laws.
So anyway, until full globalization is upon us (hey.. I guess the one perk is that it'll cut down on spam), your best bet is to upgrade your filters and use Shadango.com. In case any of you haven't heard yet, Shadango allows you to check all of your accounts from one interface (imap, pop, aol, y!, hotmail, etc), PLUS if filters ALL of them for you in real time. I seriously did not believe it worked until I tried it.. I've actually had the first spam-free week since the mid 90s. Check it out.. it works.
That's my two cents
Kevin
I think that laws can't hurt things...but i also know that technology certainly helps things. I actually was a beta-tester for shadango.com about 6 months ago. I've been using it ever since and my inbox has been virtually spam-free. I don't know if spammers just don't know about it yet or if their filters are just that good.
Plus it's got a bunch of nifty options like a file manager, disposable email addresses, and it's got 20MB of space.
Definitely worth the gander....
-Kevin
Am I the only person that remembers an idea generated by some anti-spam commissioned think tank, which came up with the idea of putting reverse MX records into zone files?
Basically, this approach would allow one to specify a list of domains that were allowed to relay mail. For example, Mail Service A would add an RMX record that specified mailA.com Then, whenever email was delivered to Mail Service B that claimed to be from @mailA.com, B would check the RMX record to confirm that the delivering server resolved to a domain that did in fact have permission to deliver email for mailA.com.
Elegant, efficient, and perfectly reverse-compatible (no RMX listing would allow anyone to relay email for that domain). And this would pretty much wipe out forged domains on email. Why has this not become a standard?
As just a test of the possible efficiency of such an approach, I worked at Shadango.com for awhile and we tested out the option of rejecting mail if it wasn't coming from the domain that the email claimed on the "from" line. You'd be COMPLETELY blown away at the effectiveness of this. I believe Shadango is currently testing it again on their production servers, and I have only seen a handful of outlying cases when email ends up getting rejected. Seriously.. so anyone that doesn't believe how effective this can be, go sign up for a Shadango account (it's free) and see for yourself how much spam just disappears.
I really think this is the solution to spam.. force all of the spammers into the light by making them honest in their email headers.
-Alan Steele