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Home 20 Sep 2006 Spamhaus Loses Court Case for $11 Million, Except They Didn't Email Reports in the press have been saying that the Spamhaus Project lost an $11 million dollar lawsuit in Chicago to mailer e360 Insight. Technically it's true, in reality, it's not. See more ...   posted at: 01:42 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/shdef.html Abuse.net gets blacklisted Email I run a service called abuse.net that provides a contact database for people to use to report spam and other network abuse. One of the ways people can use it is to register and then forward mail through it, so that for example mail to furble.net@abuse.net is remailed to whatever the abuse contact is for furble.net. Last Friday (while I was on the way to a meeting at an undisclosed location east of Seattle) someone sent me a note telling me that mail sent through abuse.net was bouncing: See more ...   posted at: 01:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/spamcop.html 10 Sep 2006 Pump and dump still works Email In July I wrote about a paper on pump and dump spam by Böhm and Holz. A more recent paper by Frieder and Zittrain takes a more detailed look and comes to the same conclusion, that pump and dump works for the spammers. See more ...   posted at: 16:19 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/morepump.html

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