Freeze on anti-spam campaign
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A controversial anti-spam campaign by Lycos Europe appears to have been put on hold.
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By CARRIE JOHNSON  WASHINGTON - Securities regulators halted trading in nearly three dozen companies - the initial salvo in "Operation Spamalot," a campaign to block e-mails promoting stocks to unsuspecting investors.
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Shark Tank: Spam is heavy at this mortgage company, so a consultant is brought in to review six months of accumulated spam and set up an antispam appliance that should kill 98% of the junk. Everyone's happy. Then it goes live.
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SPAM FIGHTING super hero software behemoth Microsoft has come up with a wizard way of stopping those who send spam from its free Hotmail accounts.
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SPAM has been one of the major turn offs for most web users. Checking emails have become a hassle when you cannot be sure the mail you received is from the actual sender!
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Do you have any suggestions for individuals and small businesses to combat spam?
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Representatives from America's largest e-mail companies will meet in Washington today and Wednesday to look for a way to reduce the amount of "spam" clogging the nation's e-mail accounts, but experts said a concrete solution remains months or even years away. -washingtonpost.com
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Web-surfers outside the US have been blocked from visiting the official George W. Bush campaign website. UK-based internet monitoring firm Netcraft first noticed the blockage Monday morning.
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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 ...
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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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Spam: Death By A Million Paper Cuts  The organization I work for receives 19-20 UCEs (Unsolicited Commercial Email) per second, 1.7-2 million potential UCEs per day, 11.7 million UCEs per week. I only have 13,000 email users. These users were desperate and email for many was unusable. Me and another co-worker had 3 months to implement a plan to get rid of most of it. I had to document every step we took and I had one shot to accomplish this. At the end of that time it had to work and it had to be noticeable.    I am not an expert on spam. However, I have learned many things about UCEs and what can be done to fight it and how to adjust to UCEs' dynamic nature.
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By Cynthia McMullen  Last week, I received nearly 700 e-mails, give or take a few spam.  That's a joke; spam accounts for nearly 90 percent of the e-mail I receive at work. And I don't mean the Hormel meat product, Spam, for whom unsolicited commercial mail was named.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Yahoo and EarthLink said they are adding a feature that promises to reduce spam. Free! Sign up here to receive our Before the Bell e-Newsletter!
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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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Cap don't fit A small UK-based hospital radio station has fallen foul of the overzealous spam-blocking policies of internet giant Yahoo!.â¦
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Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft&#39;s involvement in the process. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft&#39;s contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal.