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Ask Al: What of the MAPS RBL?

Jerry writes, "I have a question about spam of all things. I'm on the client side now at company X and I am talking with their email group about opt-in permission. I'm learning they're not exactly worried about the opt in status of the customers getting their promotional emails. I remember from back in the day that the MAPS RBL was the main group going after people who didn&…
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MAPS/Trend Micro Spamtrap Issues?

Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Steve Atkins reports on something very alarming : That Trend Micro's MAPS blocking lists seem to be playing silly buggers with spamtraps. Specifically, that while their stated requirements for list management best practices has always mand…

Is DKIM evil?

The email authentication protocol  DomainKeys Identified Mail,  aka DKIM, is winding its way through the standards track, and seems to be the future of email authentication. Recently, a lone voice, a security researcher with Trend Micro, seemingly upset at being sidelined durin…

MAPS Blacklisted? It's True!

If this isn't proof that it can happen to anyone, I don't know what is: Apparently MAPS has a compromised computer, found to be sending spam, and that IP address is now blacklisted. A recent post to the SPAM-L discussion list tipped me off. Someone there noted hits i…

Ramblings about MAPS and the RBL

I used to work for the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). They maintain, among other things, the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The MAPS RBL is a list of Internet sites. On this list are sites that have sent spam, assisted people who sent spam, benefited from spam, or due t…