Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 28, 2006
The ingenious spammers have once again impressed me by the amount of wits they use to get their spam through. I reckon a lot of them could have by now found cure for AIDS or cancer with that...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 27, 2006
There are a lot of horror stories out there about people who have lost a lot of money to these fraudsters (the biggest loss being, of course, the dr. who presumably gave the 419-Nigerians $3mil), and...
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Filed in archive Fight!
by Ivy on September 26, 2006
There's a nice step by step tutorial on Benzedrine.cx explaining how to get revenge on spammers by using tarpits. The author says: "I don't like getting spam. The problem is not detecting...
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Filed in archive Anti-Spam Tools
by Ivy on September 20, 2006
As one of the readers requested, I did my best to find ways to stop comment spam on MT powered blogs. The first thing I did was to go to sixapart/movabletype website and look there. Sure enough,...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 20, 2006
Although the title sounds bombastic, you have to know that the beloved blacklist spam operator cannot be forced to pay the fee, as the Spamhaus organization is not located in USA. But, first thing...
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Filed in archive by Ivy on September 19, 2006
Let's laugh with them if we can't really do anything against them, thinks Jon Stewart at his Daily show. This clip was posted at the YouTube by Nettles, and brought to my attention by...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 14, 2006
Digg founders have decided to change the algorithm of the most famous news aggregator in order to rule out vote spam. Some users, especially the ones highest ranked, who used to vote for each...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Ivy on September 13, 2006
Well, although I have said on numerous time that spammers are smart, they obviously consider receivers of their spam mail dumb and ignorant. I have in the last couple of days received over 100...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 11, 2006
I am not sure if you remember this, but in the last 20 years of the 20th century there was a lot of talk about subliminal messages in TV commercials being used to program people's minds, to buy...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 07, 2006
You can say a lot of things about spammers, but you can't say they are not resourceful. Once they've seen how much of their illicit e-mail is being stopped by filters, they've soon figured...
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Filed in archive Fight!
by Ivy on September 06, 2006
If you're tired with all the unsolicited e-mail piling in your mailbox, you can report every and single one of those nasty spammers. Although people do know that they can report spam, many of us...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Ivy on September 04, 2006
Rex Dixon from Techincally Speaking blog is offering a different view on spam issues. He thinks spam is good - in a way. "The main reason that I believe spam is good is the fact that it has...
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