Spam Email Citations

Backscatter from Terry Zink's Anti-spam Blog

Citation added: October 2nd, 2008, 10:54 pm
"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."
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Bastard Blocklist From Hell

Citation added: September 4th, 2008, 8:37 pm
A fully-automated DNSBL (no delisting mechanism!) from the people who run SORBS. Listings are based on deliveries to spam traps.
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SenderBase The IronPort Security Network

Citation added: August 19th, 2008, 2:29 pm
"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."
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SPF Query Tool

Citation added: August 2nd, 2008, 4:14 am
"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."
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