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- Want to gripe at a spammer? Here's one you can call.
- Heres something you dont get everyday: spam with a working phone number and a picture of the spammer (see partial screenshot, left). If youre fed up with spam and want to complain to someone about it, how better to get it off your chest than to tell a spammer --...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Unsolicited commercial email, spammer, e-mail
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Stamp of approval for e-postage
- Stamp of approval for e-postageePostage, the death of e-mail as we know it!Companies will find ways arround any taxation of messages, the messages will still get through, only complication and stagnation will be added!Self-contradictoryWait, how will a system that guarantees that certain spam will make it to my mailbox, past...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Unsolicited commercial email, e-mail, spam, advertisement, account holder
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- 97% of spam was not CAN-SPAM-compliant
- MX Logic reported that one year after the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act went into effect, on average 97% of unsolicited commercial email over the past year failed to comply with the federal anti-spam law. On average, spam accounted for 77% of all email traffic...
- Tags: CAN-SPAM Act, unsolicited commercial email
- Blog posts 2005-01-27
- 97% of spam was not CAN-SPAM-compliant
- MX Logic reported that one year after the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act went into effect, on average 97% of unsolicited commercial email over the past year failed to comply with the federal anti-spam law. On average, spam accounted for 77% of all email traffic...
- Tags: CAN-SPAM Act, unsolicited commercial email
- Blog posts 2005-01-27
- Ad groups put spam in the crosshairs
- Ad groups put spam in the crosshairsE Mail AdvertisingThe only legitimate advertising is that which WE request! (opt-in)They just want to legitimize spam!What do they mean, "differentiate between legitimate e-mail marketing...and spam."?It's ALL spam. Anyone selling a good product at a fair price doesn't need to stoop to unsolicited...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Unsolicited commercial email, spam, e-mail, advertisement, Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Discussion threads 2003-10-15
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- AbusePipe 2.3.1 (Windows)
- AbusePipe identifies who is sending spam based on the information in emailed complaints.AbusePipe analyses abuse complaint emails (typically sent by irate users to abuse@yourISP.com) and determines which of your customers is sending spam also known as unsolicited commercial email or UCE. It automatically generates reports showing which customers have violated...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, DataMystic, AbusePipe, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- What's next after SpamWaves, WavePorn?
- No sooner than a week after using Google Wave did I get my first unsolicited Spam Wave. First, there was e-mail spam. Then there was spam forum posts and spam talkbacks. And then spam Twitters. Click on the "Read the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Obviously Wave Etiquette, Public Relations, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- On Twitter: Difference between spam and noise
- Last week at 140 | Twitter Conference I attended a panel on Twitter strategies and real-world case studies. Overall it was a solid panel with some talented speakers (Jeff Pester, Bryan Rhoads, Warren Whitlock, etc). Unfortunately, amid the good stuff, there was one not-so-little thing that made me twitch: the...
- Tags: Spamming, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Using Visual Features for Anti-Spam Filtering
- Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE, also known as spam, has been a major problem on the Internet. In the past, researchers have addressed this problem as a text classification or categorization problem. However, as spammers' techniques continue to evolve and the genre of email content becomes more and more diverse, text-based...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-01-01
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- $236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...
- Tags: Spam, Email Ads, e-mail, spammer, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First AmendmentYour point still fails...Freedom of expression doesn't extend to having a legislated, forced audience!By the logic you illustrate here, it would be "illegal" or "unconstitutional" to1) not answer the phone or door, if proven that you were home;2) turn away...
- Tags: Spam, e-mail, antispam law, First Amendment, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment
- The comments so far on the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of a state antispam law have been uniformly negative. One commenter, for instance, advocated spamming the opinion's author, Justice G. Steven Agee now on the federal bench. If he gets enough spam maybe he will...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-14
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Meanwhile back at the Yahoo ranch, Flickr Video is coming soon
- Updated 3:33 PST: With the unsolicited bid by Microsoft, and potentially other suitors (TechCrunch reports News Corp. trying to put together a bid) who want to derail the combination, Yahoo has its hands full. I expect that ultimately Microsoft will succeed in its two-year quest to bring Yahoo into its...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., YouTube Inc., Flickr, Video, News, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- This ad brought to you by Bluetooth
- This ad brought to you by Bluetoothwhile I remain a proponent of Bluetooth ....... I think this is a terrible idea! We do not need another source of SPAM. Just say no!RE: This ad brought to you by Bluetooth[quote]This technology will send...advertisements to you via Bluetooth technology. ...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- DMTP: Controlling Spam Through Message Delivery Differentiation
- Unsolicited commercial email, commonly known as spam, has become a pressing problem in today's Internet. This paper re-examines the architectural foundations of the current email delivery system that are responsible for the proliferation of email spam. They argue that the difficulties in controlling spam stem from the fact that the...
- Tags: E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers 2008-01-01
- "In Vivo" Spam Filtering: A Challenge Problem for Data Mining
- Spam, also known as Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE, is the bane of email communication. Many data mining researchers have addressed the problem of detecting spam, generally by treating it as a static text classification problem. True in vivo spam filtering has characteristics that make it a rich and challenging domain...
- Tags: Spam Filtering, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Spam, Marketing Research, Viruses And Worms, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Spam And Phishing, Marketing
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Judge: 'Personal' spam is not illegal
- Judge: 'Personal' spam is not illegalMemo to Judge Judith Eiler: Spam is Spam.It doesn't make any difference if the sender puts his name real or fake on it: If the recipient didn't request any contact from the sender, it is still unwanted, therefore, IT IS STILL SPAM!If only...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?
- Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?Gmail is greatThe Gmail spam filter works very well even for those who don't use a Gmail address as their main email, with legit mail wrongly put in the spam box once in a blue...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Cyberthreats, e-mail, spam fix, e-mail vendor, Open Letter, spam, Google Gmail
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Phishing scams masquerade as government communication
- Identity thieves are expanding their phishing repertoire from banks and credit card companies to federal agencies, reports the Associated PressMasquerading as the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS and the Justice Department, criminals send out thousands of emails in order to trick customers into giving out personal financial information. These websites...
- Tags: Security
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
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