A step toward solving comment spam?
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Rumors have been flying on various weblogs all week, but today it's official: Google, along with Yahoo and MSN, is going to start supporting the attribute rel="nofollow" on links in an attempt to fight spam.    Except it won't work.
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By Lowther, Phil  There's not much that gets past my spam filters these days, but when it does I like it to either educate or amuse me.
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players
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A screensaver targeting spam-related websites could help drive spammers out of business.
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Fools write in with comments and questions on a variety of energy-related issues.
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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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Q A couple of times in the past month, my e-mail address has been hijacked and used to send out spam. One day, I opened my mail to see more than 100 returned messages, all of which were using my e-mail to send spam! How can I prevent this?
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This is a release bulletin for the Simple Comments script. It includes a few new features, including the implementation of site section support, direct support for administrator authentication, immediate publishing, date time formatting and more. It also squashes several bugs. By Dan Ragle. 0920
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It&#39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida&#39;s major internet businesses: spamming.
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Legitimate mortgage lenders inadvertently support--and get tangled in--spam traps.
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Sodom and Gomorrah for the information age Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet.â¦
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According to a new report by Deborah Fallows at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of people who think that spam is increasing has risen steadily. Nonetheless, the Pew report also found that spam is less bothersome to e-mail users than it once was.
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I think I know how spammers are going to enter the Twitter world. It'll come in the form of replies, which basically function like email. You can direct a message with a url to anyone as long as you know their username. Here's a screen shot that illustrates spam being sent to a hypothetical user. I didn't send it of course.  Another problem, the destination of the url is likely masked through the use of a shortener so the user could be clicking through to some really nasty place, with no way of knowing in advance that's where they're going. (Such messages probably wouldn't alert you in advance that they're about meds or poker or sex.) The press and bloggers will run stories saying "Spam Comes to Twitter" and they'll be right, even though it won't be the main part of Twitter. Users will expect the company to do something about it, but I don't see what they can do other than eliminate the feature. Users will certainly want the ability to completely opt-out of replies.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and
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The FTC weighs the advantages of rewarding people for identifying spammers. It&#39;s a more complex calculation than you might think.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...