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Message 202613 - Posted: 4 Dec 2005, 11:34:48 UTC
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It's a new weapon in the war against spam.

I've been using it for about five months and reduced my spam by about 95%.

Follow the link, read up and join if you like, you won't regret it. Fight back!

http://community.bluesecurity.com/

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Blue Frog deters rogue advertisers and spammers from sending spam that floods your mailbox with junk, and makes you a member of the Blue Community, actively participating in the campaign to eliminate spam and enjoy spam-free e-mail.

Blue Frog automatically posts complaints to web sites that advertise through spam, while running in the background, without intruding on your work. It is spyware and adware free, making it safe to use. Blue Frog does not inspect or filter your e-mail messages and does not access information from your computer.

Blue Frog is a visible-source software project. Blue Community members and developers worldwide can download and inspect the Blue Frog source code. Such thorough inspection of the application code by the developer community guarantees that it does not contain any hazardous code and does not infringe on your privacy.


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Message 203371 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 2:16:23 UTC - in response to Message 202613.  

It's a new weapon in the war against spam.

I've been using it for about five months and reduced my spam by about 95%.

Follow the link, read up and join if you like, you won't regret it. Fight back!

http://community.bluesecurity.com/

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Blue Frog deters rogue advertisers and spammers from sending spam that floods your mailbox with junk, and makes you a member of the Blue Community, actively participating in the campaign to eliminate spam and enjoy spam-free e-mail.

Blue Frog automatically posts complaints to web sites that advertise through spam, while running in the background, without intruding on your work. It is spyware and adware free, making it safe to use. Blue Frog does not inspect or filter your e-mail messages and does not access information from your computer.

Blue Frog is a visible-source software project. Blue Community members and developers worldwide can download and inspect the Blue Frog source code. Such thorough inspection of the application code by the developer community guarantees that it does not contain any hazardous code and does not infringe on your privacy.



If it doesn't filter or inspect your mail how does it know that it is spam. Sending email to those that advertise through spam only tells the spammer he has a REAL email address. That makes it spyware.

It has been my experience that applications that NEED to state they are not Spyware or Malware are what they claim not to be.

If I was you I'd delete this from your system and don't look back..


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Message 203591 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 9:41:30 UTC - in response to Message 203371.  

It's a new weapon in the war against spam.

I've been using it for about five months and reduced my spam by about 95%.

Follow the link, read up and join if you like, you won't regret it. Fight back!

http://community.bluesecurity.com/

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Copied from The Blue Frog Site:

Blue Frog deters rogue advertisers and spammers from sending spam that floods your mailbox with junk, and makes you a member of the Blue Community, actively participating in the campaign to eliminate spam and enjoy spam-free e-mail.

Blue Frog automatically posts complaints to web sites that advertise through spam, while running in the background, without intruding on your work. It is spyware and adware free, making it safe to use. Blue Frog does not inspect or filter your e-mail messages and does not access information from your computer.

Blue Frog is a visible-source software project. Blue Community members and developers worldwide can download and inspect the Blue Frog source code. Such thorough inspection of the application code by the developer community guarantees that it does not contain any hazardous code and does not infringe on your privacy.



If it doesn't filter or inspect your mail how does it know that it is spam. Sending email to those that advertise through spam only tells the spammer he has a REAL email address. That makes it spyware.

It has been my experience that applications that NEED to state they are not Spyware or Malware are what they claim not to be.

If I was you I'd delete this from your system and don't look back..




All the detail is on the website, but basically your forward all your spam to the Bluefrog site. A team there examine each spam e-mail to decide whether or not it is really spam.

At first, of course there are quite a few to forward. I was forwarding over 100 per day at first, from my 5 e-mail accounts. This was not too arduous as they were all in my Thunderbird 'junk' box and I selected them and forwarded them all as a single attachment.

Nowadays I get at most 3 a day.

I understand your concerns about any software than runs on your system, but visit the site and get to know how it works. A near 100% reduction in spam can't be bad can it? :)

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Message 203600 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 10:17:39 UTC

Have never heard of The Blue Frog community but i have heard of Racing frogs :o)go to www.racingfrogs.org and train a frog and keep the froggy enviroment safe :o)
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Message 204034 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 20:56:40 UTC

Not this Blue Frog then?

Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.
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Message 204073 - Posted: 5 Dec 2005, 21:51:55 UTC - in response to Message 203591.  



All the detail is on the website, but basically your forward all your spam to the Bluefrog site. A team there examine each spam e-mail to decide whether or not it is really spam.

At first, of course there are quite a few to forward. I was forwarding over 100 per day at first, from my 5 e-mail accounts. This was not too arduous as they were all in my Thunderbird 'junk' box and I selected them and forwarded them all as a single attachment.

Nowadays I get at most 3 a day.

I understand your concerns about any software than runs on your system, but visit the site and get to know how it works. A near 100% reduction in spam can't be bad can it? :)


OK IF I forward all spam to the blue frog site then I am still receiving the spam. Your logic does not make sense. They CAN stop spam from getting to your mail box without scanning that mail as it comes in unless they are reporting that mail to a RBL DNS server.

Is there or is there not software running on your system? If there is then they are scanning it. If there isn't then someone else has reduced your Spam.

Spammers don't stop sending mail just because some one or some entity tells them too.

Oh yes I will go to there site and read all about it.. D'OH!!

Don't forget to hit that link in the EBay mail you get saying your account has been compromised..


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Message 204183 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 0:05:03 UTC - in response to Message 204073.  
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All the detail is on the website, but basically your forward all your spam to the Bluefrog site. A team there examine each spam e-mail to decide whether or not it is really spam.

At first, of course there are quite a few to forward. I was forwarding over 100 per day at first, from my 5 e-mail accounts. This was not too arduous as they were all in my Thunderbird 'junk' box and I selected them and forwarded them all as a single attachment.

Nowadays I get at most 3 a day.

I understand your concerns about any software than runs on your system, but visit the site and get to know how it works. A near 100% reduction in spam can't be bad can it? :)


OK IF I forward all spam to the blue frog site then I am still receiving the spam. Your logic does not make sense. They CAN stop spam from getting to your mail box without scanning that mail as it comes in unless they are reporting that mail to a RBL DNS server.

Is there or is there not software running on your system? If there is then they are scanning it. If there isn't then someone else has reduced your Spam.

Spammers don't stop sending mail just because some one or some entity tells them too.

Oh yes I will go to there site and read all about it.. D'OH!!

Don't forget to hit that link in the EBay mail you get saying your account has been compromised..





Spammers have stoped sending me spam though. I am getting over 90 per day less.

If you have visited the site you will now know:

1) Blue frog warns the spammers, the product suppliers and the ISP to stop sending.

2) If they don't then they take action against the site, such as filling in dummy orders forms for the products etc. This takes the product suppliers ages to sort the wheat from the chaff. At the end of the day they remove your e-mail address from their list because it is too much trouble to keep it in. Of course if it was just me doing this they would take no action, but there are hundreds of thousands in the blue frog community and this has a massive impact.

The forwarding of spam gradually reduces over time because less and less spam is sent.

At the end of the day we all load software onto our systems. Because you have seti on your system do you regard it as compromised?

If you have visted the site you will now understand that they do not scan e-mails. Agreed? :)
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Message 204188 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 0:10:41 UTC

OK - for those interested how it works here's the overview:

http://www.bluesecurity.com/solutions/overview.asp
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Message 205113 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 23:23:52 UTC

Some comments regarding Blue Frog:

Professor David Messick of Northwestern University:

Internet users have the ethical right to opt-out from receiving spam. Spammers have the ethical obligation to honor requests to opt out. Often spammers ignore these requests. Blue Security provides an automated and ethical way for internet users to exercise this opt-out right. Combining the fairness principle of "one opt-out request for each spam received" with technological safeguards against harming other users, makes the Do Not Intrude Registry an ethical approach to the problem of spam.

David Messick is a Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship at the Kellogg School.



Nimrod Kozlovski Of New York Law School:

In my view, Blue Security takes a progressive and innovative approach in enabling a community of users to leverage their individual rights. Blue Security's upgraded service will empower users to exercise their legal rights to opt-out from receiving unwanted spam. The Do Not Intrude Registry enables users to rightfully and legally ask to stop receiving unwanted spam. It is an important advance in the de-facto implementation of the CAN-SPAM act.

Nimrod Kozlovski is an expert in cyber law, Adjunct Professor of law at New York Law School, resident fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP).


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