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Contributed by: Gene van Troyer Tuesday, April 05 2005 @ 03:59 AM PDT

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Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO


...apologies for noting that I would not recommend this product at this time to anyone. The questions I asked should have been immediately available at the developer's website, and should not require that I post a separate letter asking for clarifications. The lack of such information at the web site is precisely why I will not even try the product as a demo at this time. My own ISP has been the victim of indiscriminate spam complaints based solely on spoofed internet headers, and there is nothing I see in the information available here or at the developer's site that claims their product has a way to separate spoofed IP info from real IP info.   

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I make no... - Jeff Hendrickson

Gene, believe it or not, most people don't want to know the details of how Sp@mX works, but I'm happy to share...

Sp@mX will only report the domain that was responsible for the delivery of the email to the user's MX. It wil then go down the list, and also report the domains that it can positively verify as a delivery point using rDNS.

It will also report spamvertized URLs in the body of the email to their respective ISPs.

Please send techsupport an email using the web site, and I'll let you kick the tires....

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Tuesday, April 05 2005 @ 06:03 PM PDT


Obvious Misunderstanding - Xiaopangzi

Gene, the value of Sp@mX is that it does in fact report to the sysadmins of the spoofed addresses so that they will know about the abuse of their reputation and can take action by also participating in tracing the true originating IP address wherever possible.

Sp@mX does exactly what manual attempts do by going to the relevant NIC, tracing the address there and then reporting to the output abuse/postmaster address. If there are any errors made by Sp@mX, it is the same error that would happen by doing a manual RIR lookup or using some other automated software.

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Wednesday, April 06 2005 @ 07:16 PM PDT


I make no... - jules771

Sounds like a spammer to me.

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Saturday, April 09 2005 @ 05:51 AM PDT