[BCLUG] Interesting email about domain expiring - SPF vs SPAM question

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> I note the coincidence(?) that Google, Inc. now no longer resolves
> queries on Google Groups to the detailed Useniet postings documenting
> and discussing the incident.  Hence, some of the links from
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/ are now broken.  
[...]
> It's equally possible that the Google Groups breakage is just more 
> collateral damage from one of the firm's periodic revampings.  If I 
> have time & energy, I'll see if I can find replacement links, as 
> IMO the event was significant and should remain documented.

Nope.  Actually purged entirely out of the ex-DejaNews Usenet archive.

It's almost as if a specific ex-Chicagoland petty hustler and alleged
film/TV producer lately claiming to "educate intelligent and conscious
accredited investors, wealth advisers, venture capitalists, private
equity funds, portfolio managers, & family offices about the superior
ROI of investing in one movie or a portfolio of films" is seeking to
bury the 1997 evidence and clean up his reputation.

Speaking of that...

Reminds me:  I once attended a lecture by Paul Vixie, during the period
when several companies with... questionable e-mail practices were filing
what seemed to be nuisance lawsuits against the MAPS Project[1], trying to
enjoin MAPS from including their IPs in their anti-spam DNS blocklists.
I told him an anecdote afterwards, that cheered him immensely:

"Mr. Vixie, immediately after Yesmail filed its lawsuit against MAPS,
I send e-mail to Yesmail's sales e-mail alias plus as many of the
executive staff as I could track down.  I told them something a lot
like this:  'Gentlemen:  I note your firm's current lawsuit against the
MAPS Project over inclusion of your IP addresses in its blocklist.
The interesting thing about MAPS is that they may eventually forgive
you for doing this.  Unfortunately, by contrast, system administrators
(such as myself) all over the world will never forgive you, and you
are going to be null-routed from now to eternity, everywhere they
have access to routing tables.  Personally, I think you made a strategic
mistake, but you be the judge.  Have a nice lifetime.'"

To quote W.S. Gilbert's song:  "I have a little list.  And they'd none
of them be missed."

Anyhow, it's an injustice that we call envelope-forged spams "joe-jobs",
after the name of targeted innocent Joe Doll -- whom you-know-who was 
angry at because Doll is reputable and threw his worthless ass off Joe's
Cyberpost.  Should be name-starts-with-y-and-r-job.


[1] MAPS ran what I believe were the earliest DNS blocklists.
Vixie established it as a nonprofit sideline in 1996, while he was at
ISC.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Abuse_Prevention_System
(Article is outdated, as MAPS folded circa 2009.)