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	The Spamhaus Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spamhaus Project is a largely volunteer effort founded by Steve Linford in 1998 that aims to track e-mail spammers and spam-related activity.
		Spamhaus is responsible for two of the most widely-used DNSBLs in the anti-spam business -- the Spamhaus Block List and Exploits Block List.
		As Spamhaus is operated out of the United Kingdom, it is subject to the U.K. Data Protection Act which restricts its ability to publish private information legally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spamhaus (428 words)

	ICANN \| .mail New sTLD RFP Application
		For example, The Spamhaus Project, the founding member of the SO, represents a very large number of organizations who, by virtue of their using the Spamhaus Block List (SBL), have endorsed Spamhaus’ ability to aid them in determining which email is spam and which is not.
		Spamhaus has felt that openness and transparency helps the people who know there is a problem identify the causes of the problem and the possible solutions.
		Spamhaus, as the founding member, and representing the anti-spam advocacy group with over 40% of all email boxes deferring to their judgment, has a permanent seat and cannot be removed, and receives an additional vote during votes that result in a tie.
	www.icann.org /tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/mail.htm (8740 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Spamhaus Project Teams Up With Messaging Architects to Continue Fight Against Spam and Email Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All SBL entries are backed up with evidence which has fully satisfied the Spamhaus Project team that the IP is under the control of a spammer, spam operation or a spam support service and that the IP or netblock represents an unwanted nuisance or threat to mail systems using the SBL.
		The Spamhaus project depends on sponsors' mirror sites, such as the one provided by Messaging Architects, to ensure redundancy for the service and prevent spammers from shutting it down with a denial of service attacks as attempted numerous times in the past.
		Spamhaus is an international non-profit organization based in the UK whose mission is to track the Internet's Spam Gangs, to provide dependable real-time anti-spam protection for Internet networks, work with law enforcement agencies to identify and pursue spammers worldwide.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=80756 (593 words)

	The Spamhaus Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SPAMHAUS is believed to have an office in the United States, but the whereabouts are unknown.
		Likewise it would be inconceivable of Spamhaus to state that the "servers of members of the Plaintiff's are not their property" since any servers the Plaintiff owns are clearly the Plaintiff's property.
		All Spamhaus services to the Internet community are and have always been free of charge, and are supplied in answer to the directive by the United States Congress on 29 September 1998, directing the private sector to implement and enforce measures to deter and prevent the rising spam epidemic: TITLE II-- SPAMMING SEC.
	www.ratol.fi /~sfarin/tcprules/answer-03-80295.html (4976 words)

	Spammers Release Virus to Attack Spamhaus.org
		Spamhaus began coming under massive distributed Denial of Service (dDoS) attacks in July 2003, soon after the release of the SoBig.E virus and the Fizzer virus (W32.HLLW.Fizzer).
		In June Spamhaus stated that spammers had now moved from simple spamming through open proxies to actually manufacturing and sending out viruses to create a network of spam proxies, infecting hundreds of thousands of mainly home-user machines on broadband (ADSL) lines.
		Spamhaus itself was subjected to the same intense dDoS attacks for 3 months but survived thanks to its large distributed network capable of absorbing the attacks.
	www.cs.uga.edu /~huang/anti-spam/localCopy/Spammers%20Release%20Virus%20to%20Attack%20Spamhaus_org.htm (341 words)

	Send-Safe spam tool gang evicted by MCI \| The Register
		Spamhaus accuses MCI of being on the wrong side of the fight against junk mail by acting as a safe haven for spammers in general, as well as hosting send-safe.com.
		Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, said that MCI has not changed its policy and only got rid of Send-Safe.com because "the amount of heat it was getting was too much to handle".
		Spamhaus was supported in its campaign to hold MCI to account over its business relationship with Send-Safe.com by organisations such as the London Internet Exchange.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2005/03/01/send-safe_evicted (558 words)

	Spamhaus ICANN Proposal Aims To Stop Spam In Its Tracks > Spamhaus ICANN Proposal Aims To Stop Spam In Its Tracks ...
		Spamhaus, a leading spam-fighting organization, believes its application for a.mail top-level Internet domain (TLD) could take a big bite out of the spam that is clogging enterprise e-mail boxes.
		Reid said Spamhaus has asked developers and providers of the most popular e-mail-server software to write software for the new domain-based proposal now, because Spamhaus wants to move quickly if the ICANN application is approved.
		Noting that Spamhaus already operates a worldwide network of e-mail servers set up to block spam, Reid said the organization's "spam traps" can quickly establish who spammers are and institute blocking action.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20040407S0004 (630 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Warnings about junk mail deluge
		Anti-spam group Spamhaus is warning about a novel virus which hides the origins of junk mail.
		Spamhaus said that if the problem went unchecked real e-mail messages could get drowned by the sheer amount of junk being sent.
		Spamhaus helps to block junk messages from these machines by collecting and circulating fllists of net addresses known to harbour infected machines.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4236709.stm (472 words)

	broadband » News » Spamhaus Slammed - E-mail meltdown not forthcoming, experts say
		SpamHaus is almost as big a problem as the spammers by continually overhyping the problem and suggesting cures that are worse than the disease.
		Spamhaus is not nearly as agressive as SPEWS
		SpamHaus is threatening their business by playing in their sandlot.
	www.dslreports.com /shownews/59886 (2293 words)

	USATODAY.com - Florida delivers sunshine and spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Perhaps the best known is The Spamhaus Project ( www.spamhaus.org), which is based in England and posts on its Web site a "Register of Known Spam Operations" the group says is responsible for up to 90% of all spam.
		Spamhaus says Reinertsen, who has one of the lengthiest profiles on its list, made a name for himself in 2001 by sending out investment spams that had a phony return address of Fox Sports.
		He started the Spamhaus Web site in 1998 and says he's received countless death threats over the years from spammers who are outraged over what he does.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/internetprivacy/2004-07-19-spam-central_x.htm (1069 words)

	Spamhaus Org
		Spamhaus tracks the Internet's worst Spammers, known Spam Gangs and Spam Support Services, and works with ISPs and Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and remove persistent spammers from t...
		Spamhaus Block List') is a list of IP addresses of known spam gangs and spam services.
		The SBL is broadcast in realtime to a network of mirrors for the purpose of limiting spam em...
	www.futuregate.co.uk /Spamhaus_Org.html (248 words)

	Web Host News \| MCI Hosting Spam Gang, Spamhaus Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Spamhaus, deals known as "pink contracts" are at the root of the problem.
		Spamhaus says it has repeatedly notified MCI that it is hosting 187 "spam gangs" and has become known as the leading home to spam in the world.
		Recently, Spamhaus warned that spammers have developed new and more effective methods of sending out spam.
	thewhir.com /marketwatch/mci020705.cfm (525 words)

	How to slam spam: ZDNet Australia: Insight: Software
		The Spamhaus Block List (SBL) is a realtime blocklist of spam sources and spam services.
		The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a real-time database of IP addresses of illegal third party exploits, including open proxies (HTTP, socks, AnalogX, wingate, etc), worms/viruses with built-in spam engines, and other types of trojan-horse exploits.
		Executives at Spamhaus have hailed Australia's anti-spam legislation, which carries fines of up to AU$1.1 million a day, as solid and strong.
	www.zdnet.com.au /insight/software/0,39023769,39167125,00.htm (1062 words)

	Spamhaus rebuts vendor accusations - ZDNet UK News
		Anti-spam campaigning group Spamhaus has hit back at criticisms from ISPs that it is 'hyping' the spam problem unnecessarily.
		Last week anti-spam software vendors Vircom and Postini attacked claims by Spamhaus' director Steve Linford that a virus is threatening the email infrastructure of numerous ISPs around the world.
		Spamhaus has a direct financial interest in overstating the Spam...
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/security/0,39020375,39186958,00.htm (613 words)

	Spamhaus Accuses MCI of Hosting Spam Gangs
		The non-profit organization, which tracks spam and provides lists of spammers, said it has repeatedly notified MCI ( Quote, Chart) that it is helping to host 187 known "spam gangs" around the world, and that it has become known as a top spam haven in the world.
		The Spamhaus report is titled "Should ISPs Be Profiting From Knowingly Hosting Spam Gangs?" It comes on the heels of remarks earlier this week by Spamhaus founder Steve Linford.
		Spamhaus said "pink contracts," which have been around for many years in the anti-spam community, are at the root of the problem.
	www.internetnews.com /xSP/article.php/3469091 (699 words)

	Spam Wars Escalating: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On the front lines of this high-tech war is Linford, whose nonprofit Spamhaus is considered among the world's leading spam vigilantes.
		Spamhaus then tracks the spam to the ``server'' computer that sent it and puts the server on its Spamhaus Block List.
		Spamhaus alone, Linford said, is used by ISPs with a combined 160 million customers.
	www.tampatrib.com /MGAY50QO8LD.html (1279 words)

	The Spamhaus Project - SBL
		The SBL is a realtime database of IP addresses of verified spam sources (including spammers, spam gangs and spam support services), maintained by the Spamhaus Project team and supplied as a free service to help email administrators better manage incoming email streams.
		The SBL database is updated 24/7 by a dedicated international Spamhaus team (US, UK, NL, IT, CA, JP, CN) and is broadcast by 32 SBL zone mirror servers based in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA.
		Spamhaus also supplies direct hourly Datafeeds of the SBL to many of the Internet's major Internet Service Providers, Corporations, Universities, Government and Military networks.
	www.spamhaus.org /sbl (213 words)

	Spamhaus proposes ".mail" domain
		If approved by the Internet's addressing authority, direct mailers and other companies could use it to send their e-mails straight to users' in-boxes without fear that they will be quarantined or discarded by software filters that confuse those e-mails with spam.
		Spamhaus maintains one of the most widely used fllists.
		Mastria said, however, that DMA members would be leery of trusting Spamhaus to vouch for their online reputations because the Spamhaus fllist has thwarted many of their legitimate communications.
	www.webservertalk.com /message184836.html (2158 words)

	The Spamhaus Project
		Spamhaus tracks the Internet's Spammers, Spam Gangs and Spam Services, provides dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, and works with Law Enforcement to identify and pursue spammers worldwide.
		Spammer Wayne Mansfield, listed in Spamhaus ROKSO database, is charged with sending at least 56 million commercial emails in twelve months after the Spam Act 2003 commenced in April 2004.
		Crucial to this underground spam world is the stealth bulk spamming software specially written to take control of private computers, and crucial to both the sale and distribution of the spamware and hijacked proxies lists are a handful of ISPs profiting from knowingly aiding illegal spam gangs.
	www.spamhaus.org (261 words)

	BizLawTech: Returning to Blogspace with a thought on Spamhaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meanwhile, I've had a recent experience with Spamhaus that I wanted to briefly discuss.
		Spamhaus purports to offer a valuable free service; namely, being a clearinghouse for information on those who abuse e-mail to send unsolicited bulk commercial offers (aka spamming).
		Only prpblem is, there's little or no accountability for Spamhaus, which means that the site can list anyone without a clear means of getting off the list.
	iblt.tourolaw.edu /blog/archives/000038.html (310 words)

	Spamhaus breaches great firewall of China - WhatPC? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus is taking its crusade to China following an invitation from the Chinese government.
		After the US, more spam is sent from China than any other country, and Spamhaus hopes to persuade the Chinese authorities to implement effective anti-spam legislation and technologies.
		Because of language barriers and policy blocking access to foreign websites many Chinese are unable to access the lead Spamhaus site, so the organisation has set up a Chinese language version.
	www.whatpc.co.uk /news/1154602 (522 words)

	broadband » News » Will .mail help spam? - Spamhaus eager for domain approval
		Among the proposals to ICANN for new top-level domain names is the.mail concept, pushed by Spamhaus.
		Companies would pay upwards of $2,000 a year to register a.mail domain; Spamhaus ensuring participants adhered to certain anti-spam guidelines, and using Verisign to provide the back-end infrastructure of the system.
		Spamhaus is already urging developers to write applications to take advantage of.mail, which ICANN will either accept or refuse sometime this spring.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/41916 (2481 words)

	Spam Huntress » Blog Archive » Irritated at Spamhaus
		Spamhaus keeps putting new blocks on my webhost’s IP address.
		Spamhaus released the block on my server after a few days.
		The reason Spamhaus do hurt the innocent, is that it’s the only way to get spammers off webhosts.
	spamhuntress.com /2005/04/06/irritated-at-spamhaus (554 words)

	MCI accused of harbouring spammers - ZDNet UK News
		"For over two years Spamhaus has repeatedly informed the same MCI executives that the distribution of 'stealth' anonymous spamware is also illegal in the State of Virginia where MCI UUNet is based," said Spamhaus.
		Spamhaus refuted Vogel's claims, insisting that it had found the Web site to be linked to the telecoms company's network.
		Spamhaus said that new versions of Send-Safe were being released on the same time frame as new SoBig virus variants, suggesting a link between the program and the virus.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/security/0,39020375,39187084,00.htm (720 words)

	UK spammers turn on Spamhaus - silicon.com
		Pioneering anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project has begun receiving threats from spammers, many of whom appear to have moved into the UK following the establishment of controversial UK laws that ostensibly outlaw the spamming of personal email addresses.
		Spamhaus tracks spamming operations across the world and operates a fllist that helps ISPs to block some of the many millions of unsolicited junk emails they try and send every day.
		Their argument, he said, revolves around the claim that the UK government has introduced the privacy and electronic communications regulations that explicitly bans some forms of spam - and that because they are acting within this law their activities are explicitly permitted.
	www.silicon.com /research/specialreports/thespamreport/0,39025001,39121239,00.htm (588 words)

	SAVVIS, With Support From Spamhaus, Extends Its Leadership Position In The Fight Against Spam; International Anti-Spam ...
		In addition, after close consultation with Spamhaus, a worldwide organization of spam fighters, SAVVIS is adopting Spamhaus' Register of Know Spam Operations (ROKSO) database as a principal metric for ensuring that the SAVVIS global IT infrastructure does not promote or condone spamming.
		According to Spamhaus, 90% of spam received by Internet users in North America and Europe can be traced to a group of approximately 200 known spam operations, almost all of which are listed in the ROKSO database.
		Spamhaus is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to undertake research and action to protect Internet users and networks from senders of Unsolicited Bulk Email ("spammers").
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2004/Sep/1071683.htm (1092 words)

	NewsFactor Network - - Spamhaus.org: Warning 'Taken Out of Context'
		The article states, "Spamhaus predicts that by mid-2006, spam could reach 95 percent of all e-mail traffic and we would at that stage see visible signs of the beginning of a slow meltdown of email delivery systems caused by overloaded email queues and stressed spam filters."
		Spamhaus issued an addendum: "Contrary to a press report which claimed erroneously that we had stated the world's email delivery system is 'about to collapse,' [a] misquote based on which a number of
		, do not doubt the Spamhaus claim that 95 percent of all e-mail in the near future could be spam.
	www.newsfactor.com /perl/story/30307.html (715 words)

	spamhaus - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Spamhaus Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		2) The Spamhaus Project is an organization dedicated to stemming the distribution of spam.
		According to an estimate from the Spamhaus Project, 200 identified servers distribute about 90% of all the spam delivered worldwide.
		The Spamhaus Project Web site provides more information, news, and the Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO).
	searchcio.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci917485,00.html?... (206 words)

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