Thank you to the reader who suggested that we should have a domain based list too. Now there is one, and the How to Use page has been updated accordingly.
META: The Scientific Spam RHSBL is alive
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LISTED: AccuraScience
AccuraScience at 75.160.38.26/31 is listed… and cartooneyed us!
The following gems were posted by Justin Li:
Dear Rocket.scientist,
I have made my points abundantly clear and have no intent to conduct further discussion with you.
Consider yourself warned, however. If the activity of your organization results in financial loss of profit of a legitimate commercial entity conducting legal business, your organization and the individuals responsible will be sued in court.
Regards,
Justin Li
RESOLVED: Herbert Open Access Journals on Mailgun
Herbert Open Access Journals (hoajonline.com, #165 on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2014 is spamming our traps through Mailgun, Rackspace’s ESP arm. This has been going on at least since November 2013.
ESCALATION LISTING: 117.20.26.0/23 (Bentham)
Over the course of our existence we’ve received spam from Bentham from multiple IP addresses in this Pakistani network. The abuse@ address indicated in the APNIC WHOIS for the operator is bouncing. Bentham is spamming, and expanding its presence.
Accordingly, we’ve listed 117.20.26.0/23 in its entirety on our list today, August 23, 2014.
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LISTED: GTCbio / GTC Conferences
This is a spammer that’s been notice in a presentation on managing email (slide 18) by the University of Texas Medical Branch. We would, of course, recommend that nobody nowhere attempt to unsubscribe from spam, which is a position widely accepted in the DNSBL circles.
META: Predatory publishers
All viewers are advised to have a look at Jeffrey Beall‘s excellent writeup at List of Predatory Publishers. It wouldn’t be very far off to expect this DNSBL to eventually converge into a machine-readable form of the above.
META: Blog posts lagging listings
As it says in the topic. TXT records of listings will contain the Subject line of the spam, the apparent From, and the date it was spotted, so there is some information as to why any given IP would be listed. They all will show up in blog posts here eventually, but for now, the two are not synchronized.
LISTED: Research and Markets Ltd
This is a long-time spammer (original link dead; link to archived copy) but we wonder if it has anything to do with science as such. Their spam this time has to do with a book on The Ecological Genomics of Fungi, and the addresses spammed are, predictably, obtained from the PubMed.
LISTED: Global Biotechnology Congress 2014
Judging from the network and domain name used, this has a connection to Bentham Science Publishers, our #1 listee.
Bogus academic conferences it is this time.
LISTED: Bentham Science Publishers
The #1 To Be Listed by Scientificspam.net award goes to Bentham Science Publishers, well known for their predatory practices and spam.