{"id":258,"date":"2008-12-24T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-12-25T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T23:44:32","slug":"i-am-a-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"I am a Spammer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must be a spammer because SORBS<\/a> say I am. I didn’t realise it until today when I tried to email the administrators of a Usenet Peer and the message bounced because their Mail Server uses SORBS (Spam and Open Relay Blocking Service).<\/p>\n

SORBS have a good website so it didn’t take long to find out that my host had been listed because it relayed an email to a SpamTrap<\/a>. I had to ponder this for a minute before it occurred to me that the server in question runs a Nymserver<\/a>. This means that any user of that service could have maliciously or accidentally emailed one of these SpamTrap addresses.<\/p>\n

Okay so it’s a mistake on the part of SORBS<\/a>, I’m not really a spammer and one email sent to an address certainly doesn’t qualify me as one. Unfortunately that’s not how SORBS see it; it’s my fault I got on their list and it’ll cost me $50 to get de-listed. That’s funny! They want me to pay to get off their spam list. What a lucrative little venture, no wonder they make it so easy to get on their list in the first place.<\/p>\n

So to sum up:<\/p>\n