Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Since my move to Wordpress, I have been noticing a lot of funny track back hits going back to my old Movable Type installation. First of all, all of these hits were coming back from different IP addresses and different browsers. Second, they all had the same refer. Something was ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Almost four years ago I posted about a spammer that was using a free porn site as a way to get people to solve CAPTCHAs (those annoying images that ask you to type in stuff). Two Slashdot stories from a few months back discuss how spammers might be hiring people ...
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
I had a high interest savings account with EmigrantDirect for about 1 1/2 years. About July of 2006 this year, Emigrant switched their providers for online banking, resulting in a new interface for their website. Shortly after that switch, I have begun to get spam messages on the email address ...
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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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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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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
After getting hit with several spam floods over the past few weeks, I am upgrading to v3.17 of MovableType. Please be patient as there might be occasional hiccups.
UPDATE: Upgrade has been succesful.
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
The final draft (-01) is here (HTML and TXT). Diffs are also available (HTML and TXT). As always comments are always welcome either to the mailing list or to me.
One of these days I am going to get around to writing a more complete background of this draft and the ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Since the initial draft two 1/2 weeks ago, a lot of things took place. First of all, Dave was nice enough to open up a public mailing list for anyone who wants to comment on the draft. I will be putting information on it into the -01 draft which is ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Historically, blog spam has been used to raise search engine rankings. However, with the recent introduction of the "nofollow" directive this avenue of profit has been essentially killed off. So now comment spammers are moving over to a new area of profit: spyware (phishing and other similar stuff will probably ...
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