p2pnet - rss feed: Anti-spam sites shuts down
p2pnet.net News:- "Hello, guys! Big thanks to your organization!" - says one Thanks You post on ORDB.org. "Your system helped me very well! Keep this good job !!! Thank you one more time!"
And, "ORDB is great, I don’t know how people exist without it," says another. "ORDB is an essential part of our UCE strategy. Everyone should use it! Vic Cinc CEO, Host1 pty ltd".
But, "ORDB.org is shutting down ——– DNS and the mailing lists will vanish today, December 18, 2006."
So says a Goodbye message on Open Relay DataBase which will close its doors permanently after five-and-a-half years.
ORDB’s database of IP addresses of verified open SMTP relays allowed sysadmins to block dodgy email but, "It’s been a case of a long goodbye as very little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while," says the post, going on:
Our volunteer staff has been pre-occupied with other aspects of their lives. In addition, the general consensus within the team is that open relay RBLs are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years, as have the anti-spam community.
We encourage system owners to remove ORDB checks from their mailers immediately and start investigating alternative methods of spam filtering. We recommend a combination involving greylisting and content-based analysis (such as the dspam project, bmf or Spam Assassin).
This website will vanish by December 31, 2006, adds the message.
But, "Now anti-spam activists are thinking about beating the spammers with their own weapons," says P2P Blog.
"The idea: P2P tools are supposed to block spam better than solutions that rely on centrally maintained databases. Many users are having high hopes for the Okopipi project - a P2P anti-spam tool that is going to be based on Gnunet.
"Okopipi is thought to be a P2P replacement for Bluefrog - a community-based, but centrally administered anti-spam project that was run by a company called Blue Security. Bluefrog shut down this May after being bombarded by a massive Denial of Service attack that also briefly knocked out Typepad.com and other websites.
"The Okopipi development has stalled recently, but the developer promises to revive his efforts early next year: "I’m working on a prototype, but my work is almost at a standstill until (most likely) February. But by then I should have plenty of time for this work."
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
Also See:
P2P Blog - Is P2P the future in the fight against spam?, December 18, 2005
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December 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 am
Blue Security with its Blue Frog software was the best idea ever concocted to fight spam at its source. It was working better then anything else to actually tell spammers to stop or face complaints sent to their advertised sites at the rate of one complaint for one spam or ten thousand complaints for ten thousand spams. Fair? You bet it was. We reserve the right to complain as close to the source as possible. Fight fire with fire is the motto. Give back to them everything they throw at us at the rate of one for one. Do to them what they do to us. Them crooks deserve it. However centralized Blue Security folded under a denial of service attack by an angry spammer.
For this reason I encourage the continued development of the “OKOPIPI” project (an un-centralized p2p program) to take over where Blue Security left off. Once again we will fill order forms with complaints at the rate of ten thousand complaints for ten thousand spams. We deserve to complain back to them and their hosts who hire them to sell their spammy products. There is nothing wrong with thousands of us replying back for the spam they send us.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 am
….hoping that site will resume shortly so they can kill the spammers outrightly but wondering how spammers knock down Anti-spammer site. There is some very quick info about email spam forum spam and anti spam law and really worth reading
http://www.anti-spam-info.com
thx