Re: Copyright

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Per Lauv?s wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am a student at the University of Oslo, Norway. I am currently
> writing my final report to finish my masters degree. The report
> is about spam. I would like to use your figure showing the number of open proxies during the last year. I am not too familiar with licenses. Is it ok that I use the figure if I include the copyright license notice (Copyright 2000-2002 the Blitzed IRC Network All rights reserved) and a reference to the site?

Yes that is fine.  If you are specifically talking about proxies
then we would appreciate a link to http://opm.blitzed.org/

However, if your report is about spam and open proxies, I am not
sure that our site would be that interesting for you.  That's
because we're a rather conservative DNSBL and the amount of proxies
we find is limited mostly by our own policies, lack of reporters
etc..  We also agressively expire IPs from our list, which most
DNSBLs don't.

Much bigger open proxy DNSBLs like SORBS and NJABL may provide a
better estimation of the explosion of insecure proxies on the
Internet.

Have you also read
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/proxies/open-proxy-problem.pdf and
many of the other things that Joe has written about insecure
proxies?

Good luck with your report.

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