Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
A friend of mine mentioned to me that he has been hearing radio advertisiments locally for a new "Do Not Email" List service called EthicalEmail.com. They claim to operate a do not email services based on the opt-out provisions of CAN-SPAM Act:
The process is simple. Email users can log ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2004
Earlier in the year Bill Gates promotes e-postage as the final solution to spam. Now it seems that he backtracked:
"We firmly believe that monetary charges would be inappropriate and contrary to the fundamental purpose of the Internet as an extremely efficient and inexpensive medium for communications," Gates wrote.
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Sunday, June 27th, 2004
In the beginning there was email spam. Followed by blog comment spam. Now a new version - Wiki spam.
While checking on something in my wiki, I was suprised and dismayed to find the home page for the wiki replaced by a piece of spam adveritising an online casino. Do these ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
Until I have resigned from the ASRG, this served as a place for me to comment on various issues in the spam world and the technology world at large. Now that I am less involved in these, the focus of this blog will probably shift to more personal and less ...
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
Even though I have been out of the ASRG for two weeks, the ever-increasing number of spam appearing in my blog comments have gotten me thinking. After some crusing and searching on Google, I read through some of the proposed and currently used solutions. What is interesting to me is ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2004
A lot of things happened this week: MAAWG meeting took place, Yahoo submitted DomainKeys to the IETF and a Microsoft submitted Caller ID draft to the IETF and SPF is merging with Caller ID via an addition of an ESMTP parameter for MAIL FROM. Architechurally speaking, I liked the idea ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Yahoo has finally made public their DomainKeys draft which has also been submitted to the IETF.
Actually someone mentioned this was going to happen at today's MAAWG meeting but I did not expect it so soon. Hopefully MSFT will follow with Caller-ID draft submitted to the IETF. It was also mentioned ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
On my way to MAAWG
Just got on the train to go to the MAAWG conference in DC. Ah, the weirdness of meeting people in person that you have known for months by email...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
This was mentioned on SlashDot today:
Virtual MDA will pay you $1 per CPU hour their program is running to relay spam around the world.
They refer to a website called VirtualMDA.com which in turn claims to be run by a company called SendMails Corp (sounds awfully like SendMail, time to send ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
Finally - LMAP is moving closer to be a WG at the IETF with the publication of a draft charter. Interesting tidbits include a request for the ASRG to publish all of the drafts as experimental RFCs including all of the proposals (which will make some of the authors pretty ...
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