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mas Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: the space between us Insane since: Sep 2002	posted 01-02-2004 22:04 this was on slashdot Recently over here in The Netherlands, the spam versus anti-spam 'war' has hardened. More professional spamming coming from a handful of hard-core spammers utilizing bulletproof hosting in India, chained open proxies, more and more false whois information, etc. One of the more known anti-spam people has been sent one of the subjects of those spams: a CD with millions of e-mail addressess of 'individuals' and hundreds of thousands of 'businesses'... Rejo Zenger has done an analysis of such a CD, which is fuelling new debate as to why the recent EU anti-spam directive was weakened because of businesses complaining or indicating that spam wasn't a big issue for them. be sure to read the analysis. very interesting
sib Bipolar (III) Inmate From: lala-land Insane since: Jul 2002	posted 01-04-2004 03:36 Finally got my new internet connection yesterday.... new email and so on. My jaw just dropped when I configured my email and I had 56 Spam mails to start off with, after all no one had my new addy. Thought I pass this on, works like a charm to sort out spam Mailwasher sib

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mas
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: the space between us
Insane since: Sep 2002

posted 01-02-2004 22:04

this was on slashdot

Recently over here in The Netherlands, the spam versus anti-spam 'war' has hardened. More professional spamming coming from a handful of hard-core spammers utilizing bulletproof hosting in India, chained open proxies, more and more false whois information, etc. One of the more known anti-spam people has been sent one of the subjects of those spams: a CD with millions of e-mail addressess of 'individuals' and hundreds of thousands of 'businesses'... Rejo Zenger has done an analysis of such a CD, which is fuelling new debate as to why the recent EU anti-spam directive was weakened because of businesses complaining or indicating that spam wasn't a big issue for them.

be sure to read the analysis. very interesting

sib
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: lala-land
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted 01-04-2004 03:36

Finally got my new internet connection yesterday.... new email and so on. My jaw just dropped when I configured my email and I had 56 Spam mails to start off with, after all no one had my new addy.

Thought I pass this on, works like a charm to sort out spam

Mailwasher

sib