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preparingforemergencies.co.uk false FP on OB
by Patrik Nilsson 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

preparingforemergencies.co.uk is listed on OB. It's a parody site that seem to be quite popular at the moment, getting forwarded in emails, mentioned in blogs, etc. I can't find any NANAS reports involving it. It is a quite recently registered domain though (26-Jul-2004) which might have contributed to it ending up on OB. Patrik

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fp - sms dot ac
by Steven Champeon 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

...found in the latest Cryptogram (Bruce Schneier's mailing list). -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com Buy "Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, 2/e" today! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159059231X/heskecominc-20/ref=nosim/

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sounddogs.com FP on WS.
by Patrik Nilsson 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

sounddogs.com is listed on WS. It's an online sound effects library that's been around since 1998. 1100 posts mentioning sounddogs.com found in Google News. None of them a NANAS report related to abuse from sounddogs.com. patrik

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cross-pollination with MT-Blacklist?
by jm＠jmason.org 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hi SURBLers -- has anyone talked to Jay Allen and the MT-Blacklist people? MT-Blacklist -- http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/ -- is a blacklist of "bad" URLs (sound familiar? ;). They have quite a small list from the looks of things, but cross-pollination could work both ways; if *they* looked up SURBL, or even just looked up a "blog-spam" SURBL sublist, that'd be a lot more sensible. BTW I bet the blog spammers and email spammers are the same people. (If blog spammers are the people who *used* to do referrer spamming, then I'm *sure* of it -- see http://taint.org/2003/08/14/040652a.html ). Also -- some info on that google technique posted here and in SpamAssassin-users recently -- read this: http://kalsey.com/2004/07/new_comment_spam_technique/ "It appears the spammers have a new tactic in increasing their PageRank. They find a site that doesn't delete comment spam and fill it with links. Then they boost the PR of that site by spamming it in blog comments. Once the spam-friendly's site has in increased Google ranking, all those spammed links in their comments will get a boost in rank as well." I'll bet that's it -- working like so: 1. spammer S sets up payload site 2. S spams comment spam everywhere to up its PageRank 3. S email-spams with the google search URL 4. top hit for that phrase is the payload site. --j.

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FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
by Rob McEwen 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

RE: FP Pattern for sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org For a while now, my philosophy has been to use sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org to block at the connection level and not even allow these messages onto my server. Much of the remaining spam filtering is then done by SURBL-checking. However, more recently, I been testing samples of sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org blocked messages and I've noticed two things. (1) more false positives than I would want to see (though still a very tiny, tiny percentage overall) get blocked by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org ...and... (2) those that ARE legitimate tend to be cases where a mistake was made and, by the next day (or later that same day), the offending IP is removed from sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org However, I must admit, I'm drawing sweeping conclusions from very little sampling of data. Therefore, don't take my word for it... Rather, is this consistent with anyone else's experience with sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org? The reason I mention this is that, if my initial conclusions are true, there would then be a strong argument for "holding" sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org blocked mail and giving it a "second try" some hours later. Also, if this is true, does anyone have a "feel" for exactly how long "bad" data stays on sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org before it gets removed? (Recognizing, of course, that SpamHaus is probably the most reliable and respected free RBL in existence and they rarely make mistakes in the first place). Any thoughts or suggestions? Has anyone examined their sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org blocked messages lately? Rob McEwen

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China revokes Viagra patent so it can make locally
by Jeff Chan 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

Of possibly major significance to phramaspam, the Chinese government apparently has revoked Pfizer's Viagra patent so their own companies can make it locally: <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040805/hl_afp/china_health_v…> > Thu Aug 5, 7:17 AM ET > BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese pharmaceutical makers are planning to > jointly produce a local variant of Viagra after Pfizer Inc of > the US lost its patent protection in China for the popular drug. > Without citing a source, state media reported Wednesday the 17 > pharmaceutical companies, headed by Tonghua Hongtaomao > Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. from northeastern China, are hoping to > set up a joint-stock company to make an erectile dysfunction > drug that would cost only half the price of Viagra. This may create new incentives for and types of pill spams. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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partstrain.com potential FP on OB.
by Patrik Nilsson 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

partstrain.com is listed on OB. They show up in sponsor links on a discussion list for Amnesty International members (a list hosted by mainsleaze spammers Topica...). They seem to be a legit autoparts company. I can't find any abuse reports on NANAS that mention partstrain.com, but one news group post indicating they might be a bit shady. Not sure about this one. I'll whitelist it locally if there is a reason for it being on OB. Patrik

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Re: SpamAssassin Logo Update
by Jeff Chan 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

FWIW I agree with most of your own comments. The arrow is much more meaningful in cross-cultural symbolism than the shuriken. (Even many Japanese people would probably more readily recognize the arrow than the Shuriken, which is an obscure and impractical weapon at best.) The tie in with Apache is an added plus. I like the top (closest to original?) logo the best. I find your logo clean, professional, meaningful and, frankly, pretty. Those are hard to come by. Congratulations on nice work. Jeff C.

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fp: straight dope dot com
by Steven Champeon 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Why is this domain listed? I know the jokeaday folks are scum, but heck, I subscribe to the straight dope list. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com Buy "Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, 2/e" today! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159059231X/heskecominc-20/ref=nosim/

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URL spam using google search
by Yusuf Goolamabbas 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

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