Latest Additions: www.footnotez.org http://www.footnotez.org/feed/ 2008-12-02T13:52:35+01:00 text/html 2008-10-02T22:54:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/spam-email-citations/#1 "One of the hot issues we have in spam filtering is the problem of backscatter spam (this was the hottest issue for a while until two other issues displaced it and climbed to the top of the leaderboard). I readily acknowledge that there are a lot of sources out there that do an excellent job of summarizing the problem of backscatter spam. I am going to add my name to the list." Discusses BATV and SPF, amongst other things. text/html 2008-09-04T20:37:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/spam-email-citations/#2 A fully-automated DNSBL (no delisting mechanism!) from the people who run SORBS. Listings are based on deliveries to spam traps. text/html 2008-08-19T14:29:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/spam-email-citations/#3 "IronPort SenderBase Network, the world's first and largest threat tracking database. SenderBase captures data from more than 100,000 organizations worldwide, providing a large and diverse sample of Internet traffic patterns." text/html 2008-08-02T04:14:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/spam-email-citations/#4 "This tool retrieves SPF records both of type TXT and type SPF for the specified domain name and determines if the record is valid. First it does a query for the DNS records (TXT and SPF) and displays thos results. Then it calls the pySPF SPF record retreival function (dns_spf) and reports the results. This includes a specific test to see if the TXT and SPF records are identical." text/html 2008-07-12T16:49:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/spam-email-citations/#5 Overview of all rules in SpamAssassin Rule QA