Spam Scam - childsafenetwork.org

2007-02-09 Thread David Cary Hart
As a violent crime victims advocate, I might be overreacting to this issue. OTOH, I can write, with absolute certainty, that anyone using any of the services from childsafenetwork.org is opting in for a considerable volume of commercial spam (from hoodia to credit reports). In point of fact, the

Re: Spam Scam - childsafenetwork.org

2007-02-09 Thread David Cary Hart
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:32:27 -0500 , Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: David Cary Hart wrote: As a violent crime victims advocate, I might be overreacting to this issue. OTOH, I can write, with absolute certainty, that anyone using any of the services from childsafenetwork.org

Re: Any comments of the SpamHaus lawsuit?

2006-10-11 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:16:06 +1300, Jason Haar [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: I've been waiting for anyone else to bring it up - but no-one has. If Spamhaus lose this lawsuit (which they are ignoring as they are UK-based and this is some judge in Chicago), they may very well lose their .ORG

Re: Tom Van Overbeke is out of the office.

2006-10-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:28:29 -0700 (PDT), List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:16:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 2, 2006 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 29/09/2006 and will not return until 08/10/2006. this

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-10-01 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:10:01 +0200, Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: Andreas Pettersson wrote: In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather

September Origination Summary

2006-10-01 Thread David Cary Hart
The usual caveat: I have no idea how representative our data is. Most notable trends (IMO): 1. A considerable reduction in spam from Poland. While still much higher than it was six months ago, it looks like the miscreants had their run which resulted in increased filtering and many have moved

Re: A Note Regarding DHCP Zone

2006-09-10 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 13:38:37 +0200, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: David Cary Hart wrote: Based upon removal requests, we are seeing a considerable increase in SA usage. I added some notes to our website recently that I wanted to share on this list: What's the purpose

A Note Regarding DHCP Zone

2006-09-08 Thread David Cary Hart
Based upon removal requests, we are seeing a considerable increase in SA usage. I added some notes to our website recently that I wanted to share on this list: Please Note:The dhcp zone also contains some static generic hosts: * Most of these are in mixed dynamic and static ranges. We are

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. If anything, my traffic has been less of late, and almost non-existant since in

CGI DDoS Data File

2006-08-22 Thread David Cary Hart
We experienced an intentional GCI flood over several days. These IPs are infected (or participated voluntarily in a DDoS). If this of of use to anyone, it includes the IP and host name. http://tqmcube.com/files/ddos-data.bz2 This is an incomplete list of unique IPs that were participants. Some

Re: Registrar RBL: nomination and scoring

2006-08-13 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:11:34 -0700 (PDT), John D. Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, John Rudd wrote: If someone does make a Registrar RBL and a Name Server RBL (both of which are good ideas), _PLEASE_ do something like this: a) have two lists for each RBL, one which

Re: Registrar RBL: nomination and scoring

2006-08-13 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:26:28 -0700 (PDT), John D. Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: Registrars' Terms of Service should be publicly available for review; standards for ToS treatment of spammer behavior should be fairly easy to develop and apply. Registrars' responsiveness to complaints

Re: Geographic Zone to Headers?

2006-08-03 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:27:48 +0200 (CEST), Benny Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Wed, August 2, 2006 17:51, David Cary Hart wrote: EXPERIMENTALLY, I have added world.tqmcube.com as a zone which is obviously not included in the composite. This returns a text record of the country

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP Thread to Continue?

2006-08-03 Thread David Cary Hart
What a COLOSSAL waste of bandwidth, cycles and keyboard erosion. -- Our DNSRBL - Eliminate Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com Don't Subsidize Criminals: http://boulderpledge.org

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:43:41 -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: From: David Cary Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Look for social and societal solutions. Spammers keep pace with every technological method. Our greatest failure is that we have not promulgated

Re: This list using SORBS?

2006-08-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:26:10 +0200, Sietse van Zanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: You might have a static IP, but if it's from an ISP DSL/Cable range, it will still be in SORBS. All dynamic lists have false positives (including ours). However, if you have a non-standard reverse pointer to your

Re: This list using SORBS?

2006-08-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:36:34 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:11 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: However, if you have a non-standard reverse pointer to your domain with adequate TTL non-standard reverse pointer? Our TTL is 300, is that 'adequate

Geographic Zone to Headers?

2006-08-02 Thread David Cary Hart
I am not sure if this is a worthwhile experiment. Nor am I sure how this can be used in SA to add header information for country of origin. For that matter, I am not sure if this is a valuable use of bandwidth. EXPERIMENTALLY, I have added world.tqmcube.com as a zone which is obviously not

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-01 Thread David Cary Hart
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:56:27 -0700, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: I'm writing a paper that I'm submitting to an Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations. Keeping in mind that free speech and freedom is important, what would you change in the world to stop spam? I'm looking for

Re: collecting spam(maybe offtopic)

2006-07-31 Thread David Cary Hart
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:22:21 +0300, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: Hello! It may be a strange request, but i need to collect spam for a research project about the way spammers attack and the way they bypass the antispam filters. We have a very comprehensive database - about two years

Re: RBL Test Inclusion

2006-07-27 Thread David Cary Hart
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:57:07 +0200 (CEST), Benny Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Wed, July 26, 2006 20:59, David Cary Hart wrote: How can we be included as a standard test? attached config should work now, if i did it right this time :-) I'm an SA nitwit so if anyone does change

RBL Test Inclusion

2006-07-26 Thread David Cary Hart
We (dnsbl.tqmcube.com) have been adding mirrors. Data is made available without charge and we are getting some very good results: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html How can we be included as a standard test? The zone list is here: http://tqmcube.com/mserver.php -- Our DNSRBL - Eliminate

Re: RBL Test Inclusion

2006-07-26 Thread David Cary Hart
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:07:51 -0400, Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:59:00PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: We (dnsbl.tqmcube.com) have been adding mirrors. Data is made [...] How can we be included as a standard test? Please open up a bugzilla ticket