the war on spam

sneakyimp

anybody hear about bluesecurity.com?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12618136/

i think this is great! the idea is that you sign up on their do-not-spam list which gets distributed in encrypted format or something. one-way encryption prevents getting emails off the list, but will let you know which of your addresses on your spam list to leave off.

they also have software that automates complaints to parties who spam people on this list.

however, their site isn't responding...must be experiencing a denial of service attack at the moment.

anybody else hear about good anti-spam efforts?

vaaaska

You might be interested to read this as well...

http://q.queso.com/archives/001917

There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a “sophisticated distributed denial of service attack” against the sites. Digging a little deeper, though, it doesn’t look like this is a particularly accurate description of what happened — but instead of this being a case of the folks at Six Apart trying to cover up some internal issue, it instead looks like they’re being far too gracious in not revealing more about another company, Blue Security, which appears to have been responsible for the whole disaster. An explanation of this requires a slight bit of background.

piersk

I've been using bluefrog (by blue security) for a while now and then started receiving emails from someone threatening me to stop using it. Seems like other people have been having the same problem

sneakyimp

67.21.15.20

EDIT:

oops. lots of connect issues going over here at adelphia.net

i love the bluesecurity approach. I have long been considering writing a php script to let people post a mail message with header into a form which would extract the ip addresses and let users know who to contact. i wasn't sure quite how to do it though.

anybody got ideas?