Bluesecurity and Blue Frog

[giza]

As some of you know, I had some concerns with Bluesecurity for a while, because I was concerned that they were essentially performing DoS attacks on spammers. However, since their site is back up, I found these awesome papers that do a really good job of explaining exactly how their technology works, and what safeguards they have in place:

http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-frog/wp/solution_overview_wp.pdf
http://www.bluesecurity.com/blue-frog/wp/blue-security-overview-mjr.pdf

The stuff explained therein puts to rest a lot of the concerns that I had. For one thing, it's not a DDoS at all. A user's system sends a complaint to the spammer if and only if they receive any more spam /after/ the spammer has been given a 10 day "grace period" since Bluesecurity initially contacts them. Also, the total number of complaints sent is less than or equal to the number of spams that are sent after the grace period.

They also made a very important point about "remove lists" which is that they have not worked in the past because there is no enforcement mechanism. Now there is.

I'm gonna download their plugin and give it a try.

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