D Baten, the Impulsive and Irrational Spamfighter of Nanae, Attacks Andrew Stephens

D Baten of Nanae attacks Andrew Stephens in retaliation for “fronting him out” on forums as a spam-fighter.  Andrew’s question is, why is D Baten ashamed of his spam-fighting comic book-style postings?

D Baten seems to be an irrational being at best, as his posts carry little factual content and so many errors from impulsive reporting that it is difficult to even find a correct statement by this character.

For one, D Baten is certain he has a “mole” in Andrew’s company, IBT, Inc., and uses this tactic to scare potential buyers into believing that there are confidential leaks in company files.  This is the furthest from the truth as it could be.  Andrew doesn’t store “confidential information” and never has. 

D Baten is convinced that Andrew is posting as a “sock puppet” aka “sock”.  While this has been false for some time, Andrew has not felt the need to comment further on it.  Andrew thinks that it is irrational to call people socks due to a similar belief or concept. 

Andrew also feels that it is irrational to use obscure evidence to build a “conspiracy theory” about someone or something without being diligent.  Libel is offensive and D Baten should choose his words more carefully before spouting off at the keyboard.

Tags:  D Baten, Nanae, Usenet, Newsgroups, news.admin.net-abuse.email

Info for D Baten (munged): dserv(dot)baten(at)gmail.com

Proper Usage for the Mail Mascot Software

BlackBeauty made a Best Practices statement today on BHW that may have a much better affect on the email community than the aggressive ways it is dealt with today in tactical cyber-wars.  Taking into consideration that BlackBeauty is not even responsible for MM sales prior to March 29th, it seems he is using his wisdom to enlighten the
users that may already have a copy, as well as the new users, of the best way to use the software.

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/email-marketing-opt-lists/3…

Quote:
Originally Posted by b2b2b
i bought it but i’d like to know if i can use it with my hosting
packages i already have instead of the free email accounts like yahoo
gmail hotmail? the user guide doesnt say anything about this…

Well absolutely. This is a great opportunity for me to enlighten the entirety of MM users here (on BHW) on my suggestion on how to use MM. This is the LEGAL and most ethical process to use MM most effectively.

First Rule: If you don’t own it or lease it…you can’t use it for commercial purposes. This rule is true in almost all of life. So, if the webmail account isn’t yours or you are planning to send commercial mail with a personal free webmail account, it is absolutely unethical and you can be sued if nothing else.

Second Rule: If you lease it, it’s not yours! When you lease shared space, your activities affect other users on that network. It is both unethical and, again you…could be sued for it. So you must follow AUP/TOS and it will probably limit you to a certain number of emails per hour and may even say “no UCEs”.

These are the rules to look at in the AUP and TOS. Also, know their privacy policies and what they expect from you as a user on their servers. This is something that many newbs just don’t do. They “hit and split” and that is the majority of the problem and the reason that data centers are quick to “nuke a spammer”.

Third Rule: If it’s a VPS, it is still on a shared network! VPS is just a virtual machine on a big-ass box.

Fourth Rule: If it is Dedicated…you can fuck it up if you want. This is the only way that someone will allow you to mess up and that’s because the IPs and Machine is yours (at least for the time being).

Most of the time they will even allow you to mail as long as you “bite the bullet” if it gets SBL’ed and they have to retire the box for a while (this is a major sign of their true regard for Spamhaus).

Now that we know what the rules are, make sure you know the laws in your area. They vary, but if you don’t know them inside out, don’t mail commercially.

Ok, now that is all covered…how to set it up:

Scenario:

I want to send 400,000 a day from my opt-in subscriber list and I don’t want to use any ESP because they use my list to brand their companies with their footer links. How do I do this?

AUP/TOS says you can send 500 an hour per VPS, so 400,000 / 24 hours a day = 16,666 an hour. 16,666 / 500 hourly limit = 33 VPSs.

I also need one machine for the software and one for my data management. So, there are 35 total machines here. (you can eliminate these by sending from your modem’s IP but that is inadvisable…what is forbidden by law is to use a proxy VPN to connect to your VPS). That would hide the identity of the sender and that is illegal almost everywhere.

Since this load is spread out so much and all these machines have to do is spit out 500 an hour, get the cheapest one you can find. I spend $12 a month per VPS for these things. There are so many sources here because you can use virtually any data center since you won’t violate their Terms or Usage Policies.

Initial Costs: 35 Domains for machines * $10 ea. = $350.00

Recurring Costs: 35 * 12.00 a mo. for low-end VPS = $424 a month in resources expenses to be 100% legit and not piss anyone off.

Now, time to setup some machines.

Create 10 subdomains on each machine (excluding your 2 primary machines) and 10 email accounts off those subdomains. These are the accounts you’ll use to send with.

On your Data Management Machine: Create a catch all account for bounces, a sales email for responses and a unsubscribe email for your footer notice to unsubscribe “your functional mechanism for opt-out”.

*Remember that high bounce rates are a flag for spam filters

Now that we have the sending accounts and the SMTPs to send legally, we need to plug it all into MM. There is nothing fancy about this, just instead of using the smtp details of a webmail account (if you know how to do that already), use your own SMTP accounts and email accounts.

MM will automatically rotate for you so all you have to do is setup the rotation and pausing and let MM do the rest. It will build you authentic reputation this way, you won’t break any laws, and you will have a long-term profit machine.

That’s our suggested use for this software

Mail Mascot – Is it a Spamware?

Mail Mascot

The Greatest Email Client EVER! – Is it a Spamware? 

If you haven’t heard about the Mail Mascot by now, you must be under a rock…or don’t send email for money.  Mail Mascot is a simply email client that allows you to lose the 6-figure salary admin and run your mail servers with great ease.  It gives the user so much flexibility that recently it has been deemed a Spamware.  I disagree with this label and we, at Mail Mascot feel it Is a vicious attack from our competitors.

Spamhaus and Nanae (news.admin.net-abuse.email) are direct competitors of the email marketing business.  It is their job to keep mail servers easy to manage for the admin and ISP.  They have no concern with small business or the user.  They support Big Medias advantage over users and push small marketing firms out the door to eliminate that extra traffic to their servers.  That is what they do…they are our DIRECT COMPETITORS.

So, why do they call Mail Mascot a Spamware?

This idea was brought about in Nanae because Mail Mascot, at one time, allowed the user to manually adjust email headers and it had a small data harvesting tool attached to the interface.  We agree that this was an issue and removed these abilities the moment we, at IBT, Inc., took charge of the software.

What else did they say made it a spamware?

1.  It doesn’t have un-subscribe features built-in:

Mail Mascot has no database management capabilities, nor does it need to.  Unsubscribe support can be done from any MySQL databases, but large media outfits want to upsell their email software and make the user pay for unnecessary SQL calls (which lowers the client’s performance in doing what it’s supposed to do…send email).  Mail Mascot is an Email Client, not a data management client.  Some software has both and is hosted server-side, but Mail Mascot is a desktop application and it took some ingenuity to make database integration possible without performance-loss.

Resolution:

We, at IBT, Inc. see the advantages of having database integration in Mail Mascot for multiple reasons.  To manage contacts, bounces, etc. and the key to MM is its simplicity…so we have initiated this addition to the code at it will be available in the next update.  That way, you will not need to manage a server for your data and will only need to focus on your SMTP servers.

2.  It allows for webmail account sending:

We feel that this is a feature that is used ethically more often than not and wish to keep this function for the Mail Mascot users that enjoy the added value of being able to use Mail Mascot as their primary email client.  This feature is not exclusive to MM and can be found in such apps as Outlook.  Webmail accounts may be convenient. But they are becoming more and more invasive.  People don’t want Google and Microsoft to have so much freedom to their data and they certainly don’t want Big Brother being able to access anything they want with a simple request letter.

• This feature will not be removed.

3.  It is being sold to criminal spammers.

This is a complete assumption without merit.  Spamhaus does not have any of Mail Mascot’s sales records, nor have they requested to know who has purchased the software and, even if they did, it’s none of their business.  Mail Mascot serves small media outfits, Internet Marketers, and small businesses with a desktop Mail Admin that does its job right every time, it’s that simple and due to that fact, many people find it to be indispensible it using for mass-communications.

Mail Mascot is sold to small coffee shops with weekly newsletter all the way to large media outfits with millions of subscribers.  Each MM user has a different purpose on why or how they will use the client.  Maybe it’s for privacy, maybe for efficiency, or maybe just because it’s simple.  For whatever reason that our users enjoy the software, we are proud to have so many happy users and so few complaints.

4.  It has rotating capabilities:

Spamhaus says that “no legitimate mailer needs to rotate”, but this is far from true.   Rotating with multiple servers is an extreme advantage in load balancing and distribution efficiency.  In every industry, it is much more efficient to rotate through production staff (in shifts) to allow server rest and cool-down.  The rotation of SMTPs is an essential element to the success of a good mailing software and Mail Mascot is proud to be one of the few email clients that enable the rotation of SMTP and Webmail Accts.

5.  It has proxy support.

The word proxy is not a curse word and does not mean “anonymity”.

“a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers”.-wikipedia

The proxy support on Mail Mascot allows marketers to use their software from any location.  All they need to do is setup a simple proxy server using their own resources and they can now “legally” send their communication from any location they wish without violating any State or Federal Laws.

This is a convenient way for traveling marketers or those using Wifi hotspots.  This is an effective way to mediate from a public hotspot to a private IP network that is owned by the user and legally able to send in high volume without prosecution.

Mail Mascot is, by no means, a spamware and has many legitimate uses including:

• Desktop Email Sending and Receiving
• Mobility in Email Marketing Activities
• Efficiency in Mailing Operations
• Text to HTML Conversion for Easy Design
• Organization of Webmail Accounts
• Organization of Multiple Servers
• Easy to Use Email Client Dashboard

Mail Mascot simply serves as the best Mail Server Administrator on your team…period.  So, if Mail Mascot is a spamware then all System Administrators that send outgoing mail are also “Spamwares”.

Check out More on Mail Mascot Here

This message is an approved message from Integrated Business Technologies, Inc. and the whole Team at Mail Mascot