We start this newsletter with shocking and sad news that Blue Security the Israeli company behind the "Bluefrog" antispam system has ceased trading after an attack by the spammers it was out to close down.

The Bluefrog system was a simple idea, users subscribed to bluefrog and sent them Spam emails which made it into their "protected" email accounts. Bluefrog would then send the spammers site (the one linked to from the email, selling Viagra etc) a warning note that they should cease spamming or suffer some of their own medicine. Then Bluefrog used the 500,000 users systems to flood the spammers sites with messages complaining about Spam. It turns out that the 500,000 users of Bluefrog had certainly made the spammers life a hard one as they briefly stopped spamming and fought back.

2 weeks ago the Blue Security site suffered a Denial of service attack which took them down for 2 days, but it didn't stop there, users of blue security were sent lists claiming that the Bluefrog was itself Spam or a Trojan programme. Then in the last stage the spammers mobilised the many zombie machines they control to send Spam using the addresses of the Blue communities users.

On one afternoon this floored the Canadian internet and led to Blue Security to decided to cease their operations in the light of this escalating conflict. Many publications had criticised the Bluefrog system as a vigilante system and clearly it was using DOS techniques to achieve its aim. However this seems to have been the only thing to worry spammers in the last 10 years and now it's gone.

All that remained of Blue Security was a statement on its website containing the following phrase.

"We are extremely proud to have had the chance to work with such a devoted and dedicated community: thank you for the vote of confidence you gave us over the past few months as well as the particularly vocal support you have shown over the last two weeks."

Spammers 1 Users 0, who will stop email becoming useless now?

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