FC: Yes, "anti-spammers" at MailWiper do seem to be spamming

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I like MailWiper.com's marketingese from its spamvertised website:
> Are you getting frustrated with a flood of unwanted offensive emails that 
> you never asked for being sent to your private email address? This is 
> referred to as junk e-mail, Spam, unsolicited e-mail etc... The problem is 
> that it's a huge waste of your time, it's an invasion of your privacy, and 
> worse, some junk mail is plain disgusting and ugly.

Previous Politech message:

"Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04542.html

-Declan

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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:23:24 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () firemountain net>
To: Stephen Whitis <abuse () whitis com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Re: FC: Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?

> I received spam today advertising an anti-spam tool, called mailwiper.com.

Known spammer; see, for example:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=mailwiper&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dnews.admin.net-abuse.email

These are just spammers trying to take advantage of the situation to make
a fast buck.  (And they're not the only ones.)  There are much better --
and non-spamvertized -- pieces of software out there like bogofilter,
SpamAssassin, and SpamBouncer.

---Rsk


Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:49:03 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Subject: Re: FC: Is anti-spam service MailWiper.com resorting to... spamming?

Declan McCullagh [13/03/03 01:19 -0500]:
> The spamhouse sending the spam and running the spamvertised website is
> values-your-way.com.

FYI - http://spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL7242

Values-Your-Way's IP space seems to be already listed in the spamhaus block
list (sbl)

        srs




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