SpamAnti.net in June 2004

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Trust-Forum

A tool that is trying to bring a partial solution to SPAM in on line forums. You may want to have a look and/or help: trust-forum.

German far right wing falls even more (into SPAM)

Right timing! There is currently a surge of hainous SPAM coming from one (or more) group from the German right wing. Started in Germany and Netherlands, it is now bombing all the world with hate mail against immigration into Germany.

Several right wing newspapers may be linked to it since some of the SPAMs give directions to subscribing to them (no official comment yet).

I am sure the proximity with the elections to the Euro-Parliament is no coincidence... But the flood kept coming in for more than a month (several hundreds stored in my archive!).

Microsoft sues 200 for spamming

Microsoft just told they started litigation against 200 people thought to be at the origin of SPAM (using the American law known as "Can SPAM act").

When will European companies start voicing it out and follow the same path. I hear that Frnehc Wanadoo already "downed" several Frnech spammers, but they do not know how to handle the publicity part. Do they need a clue about writing a press release?

Source : http://www.theregister.co.uk/

.info / .biz: Are they only spammers?

This is the reasonable question that you may have been asking in the recent months. As a matter of fact, spammers use a deluge of these TLDs probably because they are as cheap as .com, .org or .net and their DNS can be updated in near real-time (that is an important feature whne your spammer web site is closed and has to move to another location).

If you have a documented opinion to provide (if you can proove me that some serious companies are lost in the flow of rogue site appearing daily in my black list), please, leave me a message.

Note: you may find a few useful cases in .info; One example given to me is http://www.spacearchive.info/, and it's worth reading. Advice: do not block completely .info, or maintain a list of accepted .info domains.

Note again: I have been informed of only one .biz legitimate user (miningexpert.biz). Advice: you may block completely .biz anyway.

Symantec buys Brightmail

Symantec, Internet security specialist (coming from the world of anti-virus), just announced buying Brightmail, anti-SPAM specialist. Is it the dawn of industry concentration for us?

DomainsKeys

This is the brand name of the technology Yahoo! tries to push into the open world to allow automated authentication of the origin of an email.

Sendmail (the first mail server software - and free!) already announced its support for this technology that has been presented to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for certification.

Caller ID

Now, this is the name of the competing technology from Microsoft.

It seems to be ready for adoption by AOL, Earthlink and Google even if it won't be an open standard.

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SpamAnti.net has a new skin

You may have missed the change of hosting server at the beginning of May; You could not miss that I transformed completely the graphic design of the web site, too.

I wanted to depart from the aging yellow on black background graphic style to move to something more polished. I also took some time to work on the purely graphical part of the design.

If you want, you can drop me a comment.

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