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eyecon

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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Filtering/

AppRiver
http://www.appriver.com/arm/novell_exchange.htm
Apparently (according to Firefox) broken redirect

Bright Mail
http://www.brightmail.com/
Redirect

Despammed
http://www.despammed.com/
Dead

Dynacomm
http://www.dciseries.com/products/ifilter/
Redirect

Email Filtering
http://www.emailfiltering.co.uk/
Redirect

Email Sifter
http://www.emailsifter.com/
Redirect

EMF Systems
http://www.emf-systems.com/
Redirect (same as Email Filtering)

Filter Spam
http://www.filterspam.co.uk/index.html
SCAM

Mail Zapper
http://www.mailzapper.com/
Redirect

Pyzor
http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
Open Source Project that has not been updated in four years.

Sender Policy Framework
http://spf.pobox.com/
Redirect

Spam Resistor
http://www.spamresistor.com/
Redirect
 
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#2259 dealt with, except for:
Remove Me Now!
SpamMotel

Remove Me Now! has a notice at the bottom "If you have been sent to this website by a link or other reference in an unsolicited communication to get "removed", it is a hoax, intentionally initiated by the person or persons who actually sent the communication. Remove Me Now does not send unsolicited email or participate in any promotions by third-parties or email marketers."

As I am not an expert in the field, I am leaving these in hopes that one of our computers editors will take a look.

Links to suitable articles in Wikipedia are perfectly acceptable. You will find many of them in the Open Directory.
 
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By the way, it is helpful to editors if you give a clickable link to the directory category (rather than putting it in your post title). I know that you were just copying another post in this thread. But a clickable link gets us to the category faster.

We don't need live links to the sites themselves, as we can check those from within the category. Just the listing title would be fine. Some posters prefer not to give links to sites, as these will lead search engines to dead sites, etc.

But you are doing a great job! Thanks. :)
 
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#2261 dealt with, thanks.

Leaving Pyzor, as I presume it still works as software.
Leaving Filterspam, as there is nothing on the site to indicate that it is a scam. Naturally there wouldn't be! But it does supply an address and privacy policy.
 
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jeanmanco said:
#2259 dealt with, except for:
Remove Me Now!
SpamMotel

Remove Me Now! has a notice at the bottom "If you have been sent to this website by a link or other reference in an unsolicited communication to get "removed", it is a hoax, intentionally initiated by the person or persons who actually sent the communication. Remove Me Now does not send unsolicited email or participate in any promotions by third-parties or email marketers."
Click to expand...

It's a scam. There are lots of these around. Note there is no description of what they do and how they do it. "A provisional patent has been issued on our system by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office" is pure hokum. To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing (there are provision patent applications).

"In addition to quickly removing you from spammers' mailing lists, and protecting you from future spam, we also cut into their spamming revenue by bouncing back their messages"

Utter nonsense. "Opting out" is far more likely to confirm an email address than to reduce spam. Bouncing spam (rather than a 55x rejection) is called "backscatter" http://tqmcube.com/spamdef.php

Legitimate companies don't have a whois record that looks like this:

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
BASIC COMMUNICATIONS solutions397@yahoo.com
PO BOX 48614
LOS ANGELES, CA 90048-0614
US
323 931 0421 fax: 123 123 1234


PO Box and Yahoo email. They are supposedly in the spam business. Providing a virtual email address is preposterous. Note that there is no contact name. How comfortable would you be providing them with a credit card?
 
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A Note on Various Anti-spam Listings (Opinion)

Substantial free open source resources exist for combatting spam. Moreover, the data to eliminate spam (which is used by servers and open source solutions like Spam Assassin) is also free from the likes of SpamCop, SpamBag, SORBS, TQMcube, SPEWS, Spamhaus and others.

Commercial solutions are often - if not usually - purchased by those who don't know any better. Historically, some of these have even been used to harvest email addresses which are then sold to spammers.

Therefore, I would like to politely suggest that these categories MIGHT serve people better if they were separated into commercial and non-commercial listings.

. . . just a thought.
 
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Some sites containing articles, reference documents and such are useful from a historical perspective even if not the "latest and greatest" on a topic such as the article on Bayesian filtering. Even the pro-spam rant is legitimate if distasteful. These should be moved into Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Articles/ (which apparently didn't exist when the category charter was written).
 
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Callimachus said:
Some sites containing articles, reference documents and such are useful from a historical perspective
Click to expand...

If I understand the criteria correctly, if a site claims to be current then it should be current. "In rare instances, a site that used to be current may still contain valuable articles, links and other resources. For example, an antiques newsletter that hasn't been updated in 2 years may still contain valuable articles and information on antique buying and appraisal. "

That SEEMS to suggest (although sometimes this is like Talmudic study) that archival value is based upon the CURRENT value of older content. That wouldn't seem to apply in the sited <sic> example.
 
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Now this is a very strange site in dmoz. I think it a sort of keyword spam site.

Harry's Greece Travel Guide
http://www.harrys-athens-greece-guide.com/ found in
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

And this one
Aegen
http://www.agn.gr/ found in
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/

Heliotropion (Under construction)
http://heliotropion.com/
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/
 
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Hi.

The url weddings.co.uk appears in the following 4 cats but the site has not been updated for about 5 or 6 years(there's a competition with a closing date of July 2000 and a catalogue dated 2000) and has lots of dead links, missing pictures etc.

Weddings.co.uk - Includes a UK services directory for everything from bridal wear to cakes, cars to honeymoons. Provides discussion forums to discuss bridal matters.
-- http://www.weddings.co.uk Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Event Planning: Weddings: Guides and Directories

East of England Executive Chauffeurs - Chauffeurs and wedding car hire.
-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/carhire/eastengl.htm Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: Cambridgeshire: Peterborough: Transport

Wedding Customs and Superstitions - Interesting information regarding wedding customs and superstitions.
-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm Society: Relationships: Weddings: Help and Advice

Wedding Customs and Superstitions - Wedding customs and superstitions from the UK.
-- http://www.weddings.co.uk/info/tradsupe.htm Society: Folklore: Literature: Superstitions
 
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