tom | March 14, 2004
Referer Realtime Black List looks to be the next needed thing if you want to have useful “referer” entries in your httpd logs. Well, I suppose an Apache module will be needed too, perhaps a simple hash table with offending referer URLs so you can drop the connection or add a special tag to that [...]
tom | December 29, 2003
A great deal of spam we receive comes from [what appear to be] hacked boxes on DSL or Cable accounts. The harnessed box does not go through their ISP’s mail server but rather connects directly to us on port 25 and speaks smtp. The broadband customer has no idea that hundreds or thousands of messages [...]
tom | December 28, 2003
My feeling is that services such as Postini are going away in the future. The company may still be around if they roll with the changes but analyzing mail for spam based on content is going away. I think mail will be usable again with permission based mail, using something that is not too difficult [...]
tom | December 27, 2003
I figured I would start blogging my fun with the spammers to record some of the tricky things I notice and some of the pain we deal with, mostly so I can look back on it in the years to come, when spam is a thing of the past (I hope). I’ll start off with [...]
