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Why Does Anti-Spam Work?
[2008-04-25] In networked media you have to try hard. But if you create good ideas and content over a sustained period, interested parties will find you.
What is Spam? What is Relevant?
[2008-03-28] You can read a lot about what search engineers want by looking at how the search results change. You can learn a bit more by listening to how they try to guide / influence / manipulate the market while engaging in discourse.
Can You Really Stop Spam?
[2008-02-29] Dear Rich,
Spamification of Trusted Words, Ideas, & Organizations
[2008-02-01] The well-intentioned feature "I'm Feeling Lucky" of Google is apparently being exploited by slick spammers to dupe common folks into their evil designs.
Spam Levels Hit 95% In 2007
[2008-01-11] Spam comprised 95 percent of all email traffic in 2007 according to anti-spam company SpamStopsHere.
Avoiding a Sploggers Arms Race
[2007-12-21] Bloggers are confronting the idea that sploggers are ripping content, and posting it on their own Adsense laden web sites.
Reverse Engineering Spammers Testing the Water
[2007-11-21] Spammers are annoying, and generally can cause problems, what is worrying is when spammers are busy out there testing the water, and no one seems to notice.
Spamments & Spamversations: Staying Out of Unwanted Conversations
[2007-11-09] There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacted him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications.
Tips For Identifying Trackback Spam & Comment Spam
[2007-10-12] For a new blogger, getting comments or trackbacks is exciting. However, some of them could be automated spambots filling up your comments with links to sites you wouldn't want your visitors seeing.
Social Networking Spam and Privacy
[2007-09-28] If you are like the many people getting Quechup invitation spam, consider how it relates to the serious privacy problems with Social Networking.
Social Network Email = Spam?
[2007-09-12] Is anyone else starting to think of all the different social network friends invites - and the social networks' many other reminders & messages - as spam?
What is Motivating Spammers?
[2007-08-16] I don't get it, Dave. I get reams of lame, idiotic spam email and occasionally read through them to see what offers are being made, and they're just so incredibly dumb that I can't imagine that ANYone would ever respond. So why do they send 'em?
Akismet False Positives and Spam Karma Configuration
[2007-06-15] Spam Karma for me is the most effective comment and trackback spam management solution because it doesn't cause me problems with false positives on many blogs where I comment on a regular basis.
Wordpress Honeypot Plug-in
[2007-05-04] From a security viewpoint, this little plug in for Wordpress is one of the more interesting little scripts you can dump onto your Wordpress blog, to see how many evil systems are trying to access your site.
Email Fight Club - Avoid Spam, Spyware, Scams, Cookie Hunters
[2007-03-02] Follow these 10 common sense suggestions to avoid email trouble.
Anti Spam Tips from the Department of Energy
[2007-02-16] Anti-spam techniques The US Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Committee (CIAC) has provided specific countermeasures against electronic mail spamming.
What You Should Know About Trackback Spam
[2007-01-05] Trackback facilitates communication between blogs.
Yahoo! Loses Anti-Spam Leader To Startup
[2006-12-19] This might not be the happiest year ending for Yahoo!. Many of its executives have quit during the past year.
Taking The Spam Fight To The Gateway
[2006-12-15] The barbarians are at the gate, and only need a brief window of opportunity to invade systems, capture credentials, and report back to their masters to wreak havoc across a swath of userland.
Spam Jams Email
[2006-11-29] What does your email inbox look like? Is it full of spam or are the filters doing their job? A report from an online security firm IronPort Systems said 62 billion spam messages a day jammed US email systems in October.
Strategies for Preventing Comment Spam
[2006-10-06] Bloggers are painfully aware of website owners who try to improve their websites rank by adding links to blogs. There are several strategies for combating this problem.
How Spammers Get Your Email Address
[2006-09-25] Are you wondering how spammers get your email address? There are a few tricks they have for getting your address and once you see them you will see how important it is to protect your 'real' address and only give it to family, friends, and work contacts.
Is SMO SPAM?
[2006-09-05] I was recently reading a post on Marc Pentermann's blog that suggests social media optimization is pretty much SPAM for social media.
Ringtone Spam In Google News
[2006-07-10] Jeremy Wagstaff found some really bad examples of spam in Google News.
Perspectives on Blog Spam
[2006-05-21] What do Nicholas Cage, David Carradine, Susan Hayward, Richard Burton and a whole host of Hollywood stars past and present have in common?
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