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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 07:11:40 PST

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    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 <rskat_private>
    To: Stephen Whitis <abuseat_private>
    Cc: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    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 <sureshat_private>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    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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