Support Blue Frog...take the fight back to the Spammers!!!

[XMEN Iceman]

http://www.bluesecurity.com/

Blue Frog posts complaints on spammers' sites and makes them remove you from their mailing lists.

Filtering spam is not enough. Blue Frog protects your email accounts or your entire mail domain by making spammers remove you from their mailing lists. Download Blue Frog and receive less spam simply because spammers would remove your name from their mailing lists.

Automatically runs in the background on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo directly from Firefox browser.

Also works with all desktop email clients.

[XMEN Gambit]

And it's open source, so you can see what's going on if you're so inclined. Think I'll give it a shot.

[Spinning Hat]

Post back and let us know what you think. Thunderbird has some pretty good adaptive email filters, but it would be nice to see fewer messages that are junk coming to my inbox in the first place.

[XMEN Ashaman DTM]

That's pretty cool.

I wonder if you could use the results of Blue Frog's efforts if you had to file a suit against the spammers for violating the law in the US?

[XMEN Iceman]

Actually what got me onto this is that a MAJOR spammer network has declared war on Blue Frog and because of this a group of techies has declared war on on the spammers.

Check it out:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... hreshold=1

Then the Digg.com techies attacked the spammers:
http://digg.com/technology/SPAMmers_rea ... sage_board

This made me more motivated to have my friends join Blue Frog in stopping spammers.

[XMEN Iceman]

Also, found this interesting.

Registry for known professional SPAM operators.

http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso

[XMEN Gambit]

I haven't got the registration to work yet. Problems with the BF email system, says part of their website. However, I was able to install the thunderbird extension. When I hit the "report" button, it sent my entire junk folder. POOF.

[XMEN Gambit]

Had considerably fewer emails (only 5!) in my junk folder this evening. Woohoo! My registration email still hasn't come through, but my account is functional and I'm sending spam from two email boxes.

[XMEN Iceman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01873.html

Today, Reshef will wave a virtual white flag and surrender. The company will shut down this morning and its Web site will display a message informing its customers about the closure.

"It's clear to us that [quitting] would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don't have the authority to start," Reshef said. "Our users never signed up for this kind of thing."

"When the company's founders first approached the broader anti-spam community and asked them what they thought of the idea, everyone said this was a terrible idea and that they would eventually cause a lot of collateral damage," Underwood said. "But it's also extremely unfortunate, because it shows how much the spammers are winning this battle."

Fricking Spammers!!!!! I hate them.

[XMEN Gambit]

Our users never signed up for this kind of thing

We didn't?!?

Drat. There for a while I was actually looking forward to spam so I could let teh blue frog take care of it.

[XMEN Iceman]

http://www.prolexic.com/spam/spam-051706.php

May 17, 2006


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As we've detailed previously, Prolexic has been fending malicious cyber attacks from one or more criminal spammers attempting to intimidate the firm, subsequent to Prolexic deploying its system to defend a recent customer. We can now reveal this customer to be Blue Security.

Blue Security was our client since May 5th, and we successfully repelled several attacks against them since we started protecting their site.

We understand that once customers of Blue Security started receiving real threats of viruses/worms/DDoS/etc. attacks against them personally, Blue Security realized that they were putting their customers in jeopardy by continuing the fight with the spammers. Not wanting to escalate the war on their customers, Blue Security, understandably but regrettably, decided to exit the anti-spam business on May 16th.

Currently Blue Security has taken their site offline, to avoid themselves being responsible for any further attacks on their customers. Whether you applauded Blue Security for taking the fight to the spammers, or criticized them for vigilantism, I'm sure you'll agree that it is a sad day when criminal spammers win.

Blue Security will be missed.


Darren Rennick

Chief Executive

[Spinning Hat]

It's a sad day when the bad guys win.