Archive for the ‘Spam and Email’ Category
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Following on the heels of an IESG appeal rejection back in December, the IAB announced today that they rejected the appeal of the SPF community and upheld the original IESG decision to publish both Sender-ID and SPF documents. The particular problem was that Microsoft's Sender-ID piggied back on the SPF ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
A new company called EdgeIO is developing a new type of classfieds services - items tagged with the tag "listing" in people's blog will be automatically picked up and indexed into something like Craiglist (more info here).
One very interesting question - how do they deal with tag spam?
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Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Dave Winer points to a NY Times story on the use of Goodmail by AOL which I pointed out eariler. Apparently, Yahoo is on the act as well.
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
A recent post on Circle-ID by Matt Blumberg states that AOL is planning to charge some commercial senders for specific types of emails. A related story makes things a bit more clearer:
In a bid to protect its members from e-mail fraud and phishing, and to offer consistency to commercial e-mail ...
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
After over a year of pre-WG work, the IETF finally chartered a new WG to work on DKIM (merger of Yahoo's DomainKeys and Cisco's IdenfitiedMail). John Levine has more on this.
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
In the past two days or so, my blog got hit with another comment spam barrage. However, this time it was very weird - most of the sites advertised were commons ones like "yahoo.com" and "bbc.co.uk". I don't think that they would actually pay some spammer to do that. Another ...
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Andy mentions on his blog that the IETF rejected SPF community's appeals against Sender-ID. One appeal was focused on the fact the SPF records are being reused by Sender-ID in an incompatible fashion. The other appeal focused on non-standard Resent header processing. Both were rejected BUT the IESG added two ...
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
For quite some time I have been using the SpamAssassin installation provided by our provider to tag my business email account. However, only a few days ago did I actually set it to delete all emails that score over 10.0 server-side. Suprisengly enough, my spam volume dropped to almost a ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Long buried within my inbox was an email from the editor of TrimMail's Email Battles regarding their exclusive interview with Meng Wong, the creator of SPF. Nothing new here - he recommends crypo-solutions in the long term like PGP or DKIM.
There is also an interesting tidbit on using RSS for ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
Since I upgraded to MT v3.2, the amount of comment and trackback spam has gone down, probably due to their blacklist lookup feature. However, since then two types of spam accounted for over 90 % of whatever got through:
1. Links to sites hosted by free adult webhosting sites called anzwers.net.
2. ...
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