March 15, 2013

Server Migration

Just an FYI to anyone trying to access the site and / or receiving a spamtrap feed from us; we're migrating servers to a colo this afternoon, so will be down for a couple of hours as I get things reconfigured. Those using the DNSBLs will be unaffected as they are all hosted offsite. See you on the other side.

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October 6, 2009

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Oh, and we got Slashdotted for this article offering up some analysis of what the new Spamhaus CSS subset of the SBL will mean for ESPs.

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Apologies for missing the wave of pre-July 4th "spammers take advantage of July 4th" news; I'll try to do better with the next big holiday.

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December 17, 2008

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I ought to just start calling this "tabclearing".

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November 13, 2008

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All the news the past few days is about the takedown/de-peering of McColo, which according to some reports was hosting the C&Cs (command-and-control hosts) from some of the largest botnets around. In other news, "Pangea" took down a slew of drug peddling spammers. This should probably not distract us from the also recent revelations about just how much money spammers can make on very, very little investment and a paltry response rate. And finally, the stupidity of some people is enough to make you wonder just what they won't believe, no matter the consequences.

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October 30, 2008

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August 13, 2008

Rob McEwen launches new site for invaluement DNSBL

A mix of three different DNSBLs, one a URI blacklist, one a standard "sender IP" blacklist, and another expressed in terms of whole netblocks, Rob's invaluement DNSBL service launched recently. It's a for-pay service, and though I don't subscribe, I know folks who do who report that it is effective at catching stuff other DNSBLs do not.

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August 4, 2008

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July 25, 2008

Davidson proves to be a scumbag to the last

Unable to face his own failure to evade prosecution and sentencing, and unable to bear imprisonment, even of the most country club sort, "spam king" Eddie Davidson walked off from prison and finally shot his wife and two of his children, killing two and leaving two as orphans. As much as he deserved all the punishments that could be devised, and as much as his final actions prove what a sociopath he was, our thoughts are with his remaining family, who did not deserve this at all.

For more details, see this Denver Post article.

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July 24, 2008

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July 3, 2008

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May 26, 2008

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So, this round seems to highlight the inexactitude of headline writers. Apparently, it doesn't really matter how much MySpace won in a judgement against Spamford, (and it doesn't) because they'll never collect, anyway.

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May 15, 2008

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March 19, 2008

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A special shout-out to DoNotReply.com, which exposes the stupidity of organizations that don't quite get the whole "don't use other people's domains for MailFroms" thing.

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March 18, 2008

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January 16, 2008

DNS Zone Transfers Now Illegal in North Dakota

Apparently, judges in North Dakota are so poorly trained in recognizing the obvious that it is no longer safe to access any public information services hosted in that state, for fear of prosecution. For more on the story, which involves anti-spammer David Ritz, we take you to CircleID: North Dakota Judge Gets it Wrong. Be sure to toss in some cash for David's defense fund, if you haven't already. And if you have already, hey, it's a new year, and stupidity is as plentiful as hydrogen.

Oh, and be sure to read the Findings of Fact; apparently going by the nick "BOFH" is also grounds for a slapdown from the judge. What a pile of steaming nonsense that whole document is.

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January 15, 2008

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November 12, 2007

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Sorry for the delay in getting these out; I've had a nasty cold for the past few days.

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November 8, 2007

new pats posted - 20071108 (maintenance pats release)

24058 patterns, 10396 right anchor strings, 32083 test IPs.

Some contribs, more QA.

PLEASE NOTE: the patterns_xwalk file and rightanchors file now contain
a new token, 'mixed' for patterns_xwalk and 'MIXED' for rightanchors,
which will be increasingly used to designate and distinguish between a
"we're not sure what this is but it is generic" class, and a "this is
a naming shared by both known dynamic and known static hosts" class. I
will be going back through the history of the dataset and looking for
those cases where a pattern had a non-generic class that was subsequently
reduced to generic, and changing these to 'mixed'. It's restricted to a
very small number of strings and anchors at present, but expect more.

Download them here:

sendmail:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules.m4
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules-20071108.m4

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_access_db
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/rightanchors

postfix:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested-20071108

exim:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts-20071108

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact-20071108

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November 5, 2007

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new pats posted - 20070905 (maintenance pats release)

23240 patterns, 10248 right anchor strings, 29266 test IPs.

Unmatched DNSBL lookup candidates from the past week, plus a few contribs.

PLEASE NOTE: the patterns_xwalk file format has changed to include the
tech attribute from the XML database files; this is to allow separation
of "assignment type/duration" from more specific knowledge about the
type of technology in use (such as dsl, dialup, cable, etc.)

Download them here:

sendmail:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules.m4
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_rules-20070905.m4

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_access_db
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/rightanchors

postfix:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_compact-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table_nested-20070905

exim:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts-20070905

http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts_compact-20070905

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August 31, 2007

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July 27, 2007

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I've been on vacation in Maine with a lousy dialup connection for the last week, so apologies for the delay. I'm still on vacation with a lousy dialup, but I had a brief respite yesterday, so I'm catching up a bit. More next week.

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July 20, 2007

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