SpamAnti.net
in October 2002

Spamming webmasters

SevenTwentyFour.com is a web site that sells webmaster services and found a novel SPAM way by listing itself into the statistics of small and medium size websites. I had received a proposal to "market" services this way. They seem to be the first ones to apply it.

SamSpade

I recommend this toolset (both the Internet online version and the Windows version) for SPAM hunters. You have everything ready to do serious chasing.

ORBZ is out

Because of tough and very technical "criminal charges for denial of service relating to the Lotus Domino issue", Ian Gulliver, administrator of ORBZ (Open Relay Blocking Zone) decided to stop it black list activity. He invites evrybody to consider SpamCop or ORDB.

Fortunately, this has a limited impact since there are quite a number of other black lists.

The European Parliament starts discussing SPAM regulation

This may be the worst blow against spammers. After the anti-SPAM decision of the European Council on dec 6, 2001, it's time for a vote at the EuroParliament. We may have a fully anti-SPAM legislation in a few weeks.

First, you need to be able to clean your own site:

• Anti-Relay: How Can I Fix the Problem?

Then, before fighting back, you need to find where SPAM comes from:

• Figuring out fake E-Mail & Posts
• Sam Spade - tools to help find the origin of a mail
• Network-Tools.com: Traceroute, Lookup, Ping, HTTP Headers, E- mail relay Check, and WHOIS Tools
• SPAMcop: has software which does parsing of spam headers, and there are newsgroups as well.

The following web sites host services that postmasters can use to automatically detect open mail relays and filter out mail coming from them.

• Internet JUNKBUSTER against web advertisements

Further information for that purpose can be found at Anti-Relay: Stop Third-Party Mail Relay.