About once or twice a month, I google "invaluement" combined with
looking for search results from the past month, to look for recent
mentions of "invaluement". This not only helps me to gauge
interest, it also helps me to find rare false positive "signals"
that might have been just under my radar. Today, I noticed this
little gem:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/opensource-wg/2020-April.txt
Let me just say unequivocally that I an NOT "Rob Shultz" from
Spamhaus. I've never even heard of him. If you held a gun to my
head and said, "tell me all the names of those who work at
Spamhaus", on a good day, when my memory is doing good, I might be
able to come up with 3, and this isn't one of those. (I converse
with someone there on average less than once per year.... more
like once per 3 years!) I am fond of Spamhaus and I think they do
great work, so I actually take this accusation as a compliment!
But neither I nor invaluement is connected or associated with
Spamhaus in any way. We're merely friendly competitors. The last
time (and ONLY time) I saw any of them in person was at a M3WAAG
conference in Atlanta in 2015. (I don't get out much!). The last
time I talked to one of them was at a recent zoom-like "virtual"
email conference, where that particular session had multiple
participants from many anti-spam blacklists. But that was rare.
Otherwise, I've maybe had 2 conversations with them in the past 5
years. We don't share ANY data with each other. Come to think of
it, we really SHOULD probably communicate more often! I'm actually
sort of embarrassed to admit here how little I get out and connect
with others in my industry!
So this post is basically loony. But I did get a good laugh out
of it. Thanks for the entertainment!
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com