Planet Antispam
So a few weeks back, I mooted the idea of an anti-spam Planet site, similar to Planet GNOME, Planet Java, Planet Perl et al.
Here’s the results: Planet Antispam.
It’s still got a few rough edges; notably, the URL is not permanent — I’d
prefer something at a more spam-themed domain — and the logo is the
generic “PlanetPlanet” one. But it’s up and running in a beta-ish
fashion.
Feel free to bookmark, subscribe, post the URL on, etc.; and if you’d like
to give it a better home with an A record at a spam-themed domain, drop me
a line.
Update, Jan 17: Thanks to John Levine, it now has a permanent home at http://planet.spam.abuse.net/ . After several weeks of operation, I think it’s turning out to be pretty solid, too!
By the way, it also needs more source feeds. If you know of people with blogs, working on/writing about anti-spam (of the email variety), with RSS feeds that work, include the post text, and permit further redistribution of that text, drop us a line and I’ll add them.
Finally, here’s a picture of a Starbucks SPAM(r) Sandwich. (shudder)
Tags: anti-spam, blogging, community, planet, planet-antispam, weblogs
Michele said,
January 4, 2006 @ 6:27 am
Nice idea. Would you be interested in an A record from antispam.ie ?
Stefan Seiz said,
January 4, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
HI,
i could offer spamlog.com if you’d want it.
Stefan
Richi Jennings said,
January 16, 2006 @ 3:36 pm
I humbly submit Richi’Blog as an anti-spam feed. Feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/richi
Justin said,
January 17, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
hi Richi — I’m happy to add you. it should be on the list now…
PS: update added to this posting, too — we now have a good permanent URL! thanks for the offers, guys.
Michael Clark said,
January 18, 2006 @ 3:26 pm
Hi,
I blog about spam on my personal web site. The spam blog feed is at: http://www.planetmike.com/blog/advertising/spam/index.rss . Mike
Spam Links said,
January 24, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
There is a list of blogs about spam on Spam Links:
http://spamlinks.net/news.htm#aggr-blogs
Justin said,
January 24, 2006 @ 9:30 pm
Thanks! good links there. I’ve added a couple that have well-formed feeds, are in English, and don’t seem to be aggregators themselves.
(BTW, if you have a site on that page and I haven’t added you, feel free to ask, in person. I’m more likely to add a site if I know you want to be added!)
Michele said,
January 25, 2006 @ 12:32 am
It’s growing nicely :) I probably don’t qualify though
Kelson said,
February 14, 2006 @ 2:44 am
Sorry, I seem to have broken your layout with my latest post. I used H3 for subheadings, which fits with my site’s layout (H1 for the page, H2 for the post title), but since the headings on Planet Antispam go down to H4, it displays the subheadings within the article just like the site names.
I’ve switched them to H5, so it should pick them up the next time it pulls the feed, but shifting the heading tags might be something to consider for full-HTML feeds.
Peter Bowyer said,
February 15, 2006 @ 1:38 pm
Hi, would you care to list my blog?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PeterBowyersSpamblog
Thanks
Peter
Justin said,
February 20, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
Peter — will do.
Ed Falk said,
March 27, 2006 @ 9:39 pm
Hi there; someone suggested that I ask you to add my blog to your aggregator: thespamdiaries.blogspot.com
-ed falk
Justin said,
March 28, 2006 @ 7:37 pm
hi Ed! done.
Michele said,
April 6, 2006 @ 10:35 pm
Talk about a bad choice for comment spamming :)
Justin said,
April 6, 2006 @ 11:32 pm
bye-bye spam
Michael Clark said,
June 8, 2006 @ 10:02 pm
Why ComputerWorld? Their postings (ip spoofing, world cup security, stolen data, Vista, CPA group, and encryption) don’t seem to be spam related, but more technology/abuse related. I’d suggest dropping them, I’d subscribe to them directly if I wanted to read their wide range of stuff. Mike
Justin said,
June 19, 2006 @ 9:02 pm
Michael –
Computerworld should be only throwing up their spam articles in the Planet, since it’s explcitly using their “spam” RSS feed. let me know if you’re spotting others coming through…
Bart said,
June 29, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
On the off chance you see these comments sooner than you see the aggregate feed itself:
The ComputerWorld feed is spewing nothing but “Has Moved” articles right now. Could you update to the new location, or drop it?
Justin said,
June 29, 2006 @ 6:09 pm
thanks for the note, Bart — I hadn’t noticed yet. it’s dropped.
era said,
November 21, 2006 @ 9:29 am
Is there a problem with Peter’s blog today (Nov 20 2006)? It looks malformatted (escaped HTML tags all over) and there’s a large number of entries for today.
Your excellent e-mail validator thinks my email address is invalid. Harumph. Well, you got billg@microsoft.com instead then. (You know where to reach me anyway :-)
Peter Bowyer said,
November 21, 2006 @ 9:36 am
Oh dear! I resurrected my blog at blogger.com and migrated it to their fancy new washes-whiter service, which caused a full re-publish – seems something screwed up in the process. The feeds look OK though – not sure what happened or what to do about it???
Justin said,
November 21, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
yeah, it went a bit haywire. I’ve changed the planet to use the Atom feed directly from the blogger page, instead of the Feedburner one, and updated to Planet 2.0 — it looks better now, but it’s lost the ordering of the older entries. c’est la vie ;)
Era, as a matter of interest, what was the email addr you tried?
Nik Clayton said,
November 22, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
I’m doing occasional anti-spam related blogging. The feed URI (sadly, WP doesn’t seem to have a per-category feed) is http://jc.ngo.org.uk/blog/feed/atom/
Justin said,
November 22, 2006 @ 12:54 pm
hi Nik –
looks interesting, and contains plenty of spam-related content IMO. Thanks, I’ve added it!
Horoskop said,
December 25, 2006 @ 8:52 pm
I really enjoy reading your articles. Keep up the great work.
Casey Woods said,
January 31, 2007 @ 5:11 am
I do a lot of anti-spam work and comment on it quite frequently on my blog. I’d love it if you would add my feed to the aggregator.
http://www.itinfusion.ca/category/anti-spam/feed
era said,
April 5, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
I guess you already have Richi Jennings, but how about also including the Ferris Research blog’s spam category? That’s http://blog.ferris.com/spam_control/index.html
I’m not a big fan of analytics companies in general (my colleagues give me funny looks when somebody mentions Gartner in a presentation and I make uncontrollable scoffing noises) but the Ferris blog I think should fit here.
Hey, didn’t see your followup from last time (-: The email address I tried was a plussed one, like (my name) +taint=org@ (the domain name I use, rhymes with wiki.fi) … and it still doesn’t work.
Also by the by, there’s a lot of mojibake on the Planet page, do you have an UTF8 problem?
Justin said,
April 6, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
hi Era!
Unfortunately, the Ferris blog doesn’t do per-category RSS feeds, so it’d swamp the planet with unrelated items :(
fixing UTF-8 bugs will have to wait I’m afraid though — stupid Planet!
Johann said,
June 28, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
I also blog about spam, the feed URL is http://johannburkard.de/blablog/www/spam/?flavor=rss2.
Justin said,
June 28, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
hi Johann –
This planet is mostly for anti-email-spam; I think your blog seems to be more related to web spam? I can still put it in the list, if I’m wrong in that regard; let me know.
Johann said,
June 28, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Hi Justin,
you are right it’s mostly about web-abuse. But then there’s more to spam than just email spam ;-)
Cheers
era said,
September 14, 2007 @ 9:31 am
Just noticed you’re not aggregating Danny Goodman’s excellent blog on http://spamwars.com/
It’s related to a spam book he wrote, but the content is not particularly related to the book, and generally topical and interesting,
era said,
September 14, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Also, do you think you should link to http://michaelgracie.com/origin/spamroll/ rather than to the top-level feed? It seems to have mostly non-spam content in the aggregator currently.
Justin said,
September 15, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
thanks for the Spam Wars tip, Era! it’s now added. looks good.
regarding Michael Gracie’s blog — unfortunately there’s no spam-specific feed, the feed contains all articles.
era said,
September 18, 2007 @ 7:27 am
I think I would like to nominate it for dropping from the Planet feed then, as it is one of the more active diluters of the feed, at least right now, and rarely contains anything which is clearly and squarely strictly spam-related. (Also it has a bit of UTF-8 issues, although I guess that’s the Planet’s fault.)
Justin said,
September 18, 2007 @ 10:32 am
era — I’m inclined to agree; there hasn’t been spam content in it in a while. I’ve dropped it.
Michael Clark said,
September 18, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
Would you update the feed you are using for my spam feed? My URL changed a while ago. This new feed is also full content, not an excerpt. http://www.planetmike.com/journal/category/advertising/spam/feed/ Thanks, Mike
Justin said,
September 18, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
Michael — done….
Andrew Oakley said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:19 am
Has this feed stalled? Nothing new on planet.taint.org since 18th September.
I agree it was diluted, but still valuable nonetheless.
Justin said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:36 am
oops! I hadn’t restarted the cron job after moving it to its new host. now fixed…
Andrew Oakley said,
September 24, 2007 @ 10:38 am
Cheers!
zerolove said,
October 23, 2007 @ 6:49 am
I would like my blog added to the list. I have a few small post of other material but the majority of it will be on spam fighting, email, and system administration.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Zero/Love – for Feed http://www.zerosource.org – for Site
I’m going to add a link to this on my site.
Thanks, Zero
era said,
October 26, 2007 @ 11:42 am
What about http://rbnexploit.blogspot.com/ — it’s not exactly about spam but I think it should interest many of the Planet readers who know their stuff. Well, at least, now you have a link here.
Justin said,
October 26, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
era –
I don’t know, I think that site is just slightly outside of the subject area :(
good blog though!
era said,
October 26, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
Yeah, sure, I was thinking the same thing, but now at least people who come all the way down here might find it, which was kind of why I posted it here (-:
Michael Clark said,
April 4, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
What’s the deal with SpamNews.com? Many of their posts don’t have spam articles, but are privacy related, or other issues.
Justin said,
April 4, 2008 @ 2:23 pm
hi Michael –
yep, it’s been short on spam-related articles, and mostly consisting of wire-service news stories instead of original content, recently. I’ll remove it from the list.
Edward Lansink said,
January 13, 2009 @ 9:22 am
Hi Justin,
I’d like to suggest allspammedup.com to be added. It’s a blog that covers mainly email anti-spam but also phishing scams. Besides updates and news related items the blog also offers more technical posts, related to Exchange Server, for example.
http://www.allspammedup.com/feed
Justin said,
January 30, 2009 @ 12:05 am
hi Edward — sorry for the delay! added.
Mike said,
January 1, 2010 @ 5:23 pm
Please add https://secure.grepular.com/blog/index.php/category/email/feed/
Justin Mason said,
January 4, 2010 @ 1:00 pm
Mike — done.
Justin Mason said,
January 4, 2010 @ 4:25 pm
hmm… Mike, I can’t seem to add a https blog to the Planet. annoying. any chance you can offer a http version?
Mike said,
January 4, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
Hmmm, that sucks. Are you able to add this?
http://grepular.com/blog/index.php/category/email/feed/
That URL still redirects to HTTPS though…
Justin Mason said,
January 5, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
Mike: nope, the redirect still causes the problem. I think Python’s url lib used in the Planet can’t handle HTTPS cert validation.
Mike said,
January 5, 2010 @ 3:10 pm
Can you try http://grepular.com/blog/index.php/category/email/feed/ again please? I’ve made it so that requests from their feed fetcher are proxied to the HTTPS url rather than redirected…
Justin Mason said,
January 5, 2010 @ 3:58 pm
thanks! that worked, and it’s now in the list. it’d be even neater if the feed included the full post text btw ;)
Richi Jennings said,
February 4, 2010 @ 7:13 pm
Amir Lev is blogging some interesting things over at Computerworld; mostly spam-related. I’ve seen a draft of next week’s post and I know you’re going to like it ;-)
Feed is http://blogs.computerworld.com/blog/167/feed