[clue-tech] Thunderbird junk training

[Angelo Bertolli]

Nate Duehr wrote:

> Speaking of spam:
>
> There's a new group doing some very interesting, active fighting of spam.
>
> Their website is/was www.bluesecurity.com and they've gotten some good 
> press and feedback from some long-term spam-fighter type folks.
>
> Basically as I understand it, they're aggregating spam reports, 
> finding the largest offenders, and then blasting thousands of 
> bog-standard "opt-out" requests at them, since the opt-outs are 
> required by law.
>
> They're calling it a "do-not-include" registry.
>
> The website is currently down, and it's turning into an old-fashioned 
> wild-west style Internet dogfight.
>
> Last night I received an e-mail from a spammer who came right out and 
> said they were a spammer and that they would "fill my inbox with 
> thousands of messages" because I was a member of bluesecurity.com's 
> service and using it.
>
> Just because I was using a service.  Wow.
>
> I think they've gotten the attention of a lot of spammers and 
> spammer's ISP's, but I'm not finding a lot of real-time information 
> because the spammers are DoS'ing their websites and systems.

Well, I've got about 6 to 8 computers at  home, so if anyone wants to 
set up a grid to help distribute the load, let me know.