About Enemieslist

Enemieslist (EL) is:

  • a news source/aggregator for antispam/antivirus, security and related issues
  • an antispam project primarily aimed at eradicating spam sent via "zombies" and other spam software as well as from illegitimate mail sources
  • intended to allow for extensive local policy configuration, while reducing the amount of spam accepted by allowing rejections to occur during the SMTP session, rather than during post-delivery analysis
  • a set of heuristics and signatures for detecting misconfigured and/or compromised mail servers and spam software
  • a highly configurable, mature, m4-compatible open source antispam package for sendmail
  • a list of patterns of "generic" reverse DNS naming conventions, provided in formats compatible with sendmail, exim and postfix, suitable for filtering or blocking
  • an approach to fighting spam that focuses on structural, rather than content-oriented, characteristics of spam messages
  • compatible with popular DNS-based blacklists, post-delivery antispam and antivirus software, local configuration (such as policies defined in the local sendmail access.db)
  • a research project and data-gathering effort focused on rDNS naming conventions (over twenty-seven thousand patterns for over seventeen thousand domains)
  • the result of over four years of work and several years of antispam efforts as well as extensive contributions from a small group of antispam advocates
  • under active development, featuring frequent updates (several times weekly updates to the patterns, roughly once-monthly package updates and releases)

You can find out more about EL by reading the features list. You can support the project by donating. You can contact us in order to be evaluated as part of our limited non-public beta program by emailing us at beta@enemieslist.com.

About Steven Champeon

Active in the antispam community for the past several years, Steven Champeon has been on the Internet since 1991, when he got his first email account at Syracuse University, and despite that early and harrowing experience with Bitnet, soon realized he loved email. Shortly thereafter, he started hacking Unix and perl and hasn't stopped.

After several years in the world of SGML document conversion, he proposed and led the Web Services department for imonics corporation before joining hesketh.com as Chief Technical Officer. He has contributed to dozens of books and articles as author, interviewee, technical editor and development editor, for O'Reilly and Associates, Apress, John Wiley and Sons, New Riders, Apple's Internet Developer, Webtechniques and New Architect and others. His strengths include Web technologies and standards, XML, sendmail, Linux and OS X.

Steve has long been active in the Internet / Web community, and founded the well-regarded Webdesign-L list in 1997, where he continues to serve as its "List Mom". He was a founder of The Web Standards Project and continues to serve on its Steering Committee. He is a highly sought after speaker at conferences, and served on the Advisory Committees for both the CMP Web conference circuit and SxSW Interactive.

He authored the seminal Building Dynamic HTML GUIs, which foretold the current fascination with Dynamic HTML (now known as "ajax") for creating dynamic, responsive Web user interfaces.

Steve has most recently contributed to Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, coined the phrase "progressive enhancement", an accessible and efficient approach to designing Web sites, and compared and contrasted the "dot com bubble" with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.