Stopping Spam
If you are like us, you have been angry at the increasing level of spam and the whippy laws from Congress that do anything to stop it. So we found the only way to stop it is to take the lead ourselves. We have spam filters on our host and local system. Also, we’ve been compiling our own public and uncopyrighted black list of spammers and publish it online with an invitation to hackers to use this database to develop their own viruses, trojans, and spyware. In other words, hackers can take the lead by launching denial of service and other attacks on the illegal sites. You can find our current list at:
http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.cfm
Have fun!
The IPs listed here are only those that have spammed us. You can’t send us an IP to add to the list. Build your own black list and advertise it, like we do.
Remember a couple of things:
- If you are a host service, I have no way of tracing the originator of any email. I can trace it back to the host, but no further. That means you, as a host, are legalaly liabel for anyone using your host to send spam.
- Many times a spammer will hijack an innocent system an use it for their dirty deeds, using the innocent system to send their spam. This means you can be liable for spam from your computer if you don’t put adequate protection on it.
You may see some prominent IPs on this list. There are several on the list hosted by yahoo.uk, for example. Spammers are using that host to sell prescription drugs using illegal email from blind accounts. We’ve written Yahoo.uk on this, but they have done nothing. So we are asking hackers to shut down multiple IPs on this host that are being used for this.
Many sites are now building links into our black list. Thank you very much! This pushes our black list higher in the search engines and helps make everything work better. Some of these IPs have already moved onto the commercial black lists, such as postini’s, that are used by commercial hosts for controlling spam.
This disadvantage of this strategy is that more and more IPs are killed, and there is a shortage of IPs on the Internet. My first priority, however, is to protect my computer - not the spammers. Will President Bush, Congress, and the FTC every wake up to this or do we have to do it?
Like Germany, we should have a high federal fine for the spammer (I think it’s $65,000/spam in Germany). That would finance the FTC operation. A portion of that should be kicked back to whoever reports a spammer to the FTC to cover their reporting cost. How about it Congress?