Author: Johann Steigenberger Date: To: exim-users Subject: [exim] UCEPROTECT, APEWS and the truth about Marc Perkel
Hi all,
sorry to bug you with this thread, but we want to give you a statement
after all those lies we have seen here by Marc Perkel here after he
has started the thread: Who is APEWS?
1. UCEPROTECT is not related to APEWS.
We just mirror their blacklist, as TQMCUBE and SORBS do too.
We do not import their data into our zones.
But it seems Marc Perkel is related to Moris :-) because both are
claiming the same lies.
2. UCEPROTECT lists for SAV because it is abusive.
Yes we had also listed Verizon for about 1 year for permanently hitting
our spamtraps with their SAV.
Then they stopped SAV and got delisted.
And it is a pure lie that we charge users for removals.
IP's listed are expiring 7 days after the Abuse was stopped, free of charge.
There is an option only to pay for an expedited immediate removal.
3. SAV is a bad idea. It is not an Exim invention.
It is an invention made by spammers, long before Exim had that "feature".
Spammers are using the same technique for dictionary attacks.
What Lusers as Marc Perkel do not understand is, that if there is a Spammer
faking to be you@??? (assuming that would be your address) and he
would
send out 15 Millions of spammail with that forged from, you will get about 1
Million
"Verification Requests" from Systems around the globe, where each of them is
just doing ONE try to "Verify" you@??? is deliverable.
That results in a very high load on your server, and delays for your regular
mails,
because all of your sockets are busy with lamerz just "veryifiing" your
address.
It is not the problem that you do it, the problem is that some million
others are too.
Millions of Systems connecting to one target at nearly the same time are
the problem. That leads to a DDOS. And you are part of it ...
And last not least:
RFC 821 knows a command "VRFY" to do that test.
Most Administrators have chosen to disable this, because Spammers were
abusing it.
Anyone trying to circumvent a restriction on a remote system is an Abuser.
So faking to be a null sender and going up to RCPT TO means you are an
Abuser.
That is what Exim's SAV does.
4. Marc Perkel tries to discredit UCEPROTECT since a long time now.
What you might find interesting is, that Marc has started a blacklist
himself,
he calls this "HOSTKARMA", where he lists IP's which have never done any
Abuse or Spammings.
Just goto DNSSTUFF and test 194.95.224.137 if you do not trust me.
This IP is listed just because we list Marc for his abusive SAV :-)
Ok it does not matter to us, because no one is using Marc's fraudulent
Hostkarma".
But it should be an indicator for his bad trustworthy.
Whatever happend to Marc, there are always the others resonsible for that
:-)
He never got the Idea that he could be the problem.
If you ever have been on Marcs Website and have seen who he thinks "sucks",
then you might get an idea of who really sucks: Mr. Escrow Service Himself:
Marc Perkel.
