Deforest Your Mailbox
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A new online service developed by three nonprofit environmental groups is facilitating attempts to unsubscribe to unwanted mail catalogs.
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Spam mail has become one of the biggest problems on the Internet; it consumes precious bandwidth, wastes computer resources, and causes huge financial losses to corporations.
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In his latest blog entry, Ilia Alshanetsky has proposed (and provided) a patch that can help with one of the more abused of the popular PHP functions out there - mail().   One of the problems with solving the mail() abuse is figuring out who is doing it or perhaps what script was exploited to do it, since the mail() function does not offer any logging mechanism.   To address this problem, he's supplied this patch you can apply to your source to add two new options to the mail function:  enable the addition of the X-PHP-Originating-Script header mail.log (takes a filename) allows you to enable logging of every single mail() call  Check out his entry for more details on configuration options and other functionality included with the patch.
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I&#39;M FEELING a little bit better about the hundreds of junk e-mails I get every day now that I&#39;ve read that someone else has much bigger e-mail troubles.
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At a time when mail boxes are stuffed with holiday cards, bills and the usual batch of junk mail, 17 players might want to be very careful about throwing away unopened letters the next few weeks.
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Garbage hauler Frank Treto quickly spots enough junk mail and cardboard to warrant whipping out a bright yellow warning tag, one of hundreds he's doled out since the city's mandatory recycling law took effect this year.
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If you've been around the net for a while you've been subscribed to a few thousand mailing lists.  I'm on a few big mailing lists now that host more than a few thousand users.  Sooner or later some guy on the list will go on vacation and instead of just letting email sit in their inbox he's nice enough to respond to all his email - with a form letter!  Usually in the shape of:  "I'm on vacation.  I'll be back in January."  Of course they're stupid enough to apply this to *every* folder in their inbox and so everytime someone posts or replies to the list this message is sent out to one of every three thousand posters.  We don't care if you're on vacation.  We don't care when you get back and  ...
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Reg UXB man delivers the facts Comment Bomb-disposal operators quite like letter bombs, or "postals" as they are known in the trade. A postal device â especially if it's in an actual letter, as opposed to a parcel â is usually not very powerful. Even unprotected civilians are seldom killed by postals, and an operator in full armour can feel fairly relaxed when dealing with one.â¦
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For years, spam haters have relied on junk-mail filters and Internet blacklists, but some are saying it's time for a change in tactics.
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Explosive climax to Post Office scare Here's a top tip for those of you thinking of sending battery-operated sex toys via the Royal Mail: take out the power source before popping the package in the post, or you might enjoy a more explosive climax than anticipated.â¦
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By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Dec. 18--EMERALD ISLE -- After the gifts have been unwrapped and the tree has come down, stacks of empty boxes and bags of trash remain.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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Do you already feel like your mailbox is clogged full of âfreeâ checks and offers for low introductory rates for new credit cards?
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Empty your cupboards of chemicals and harsh pes
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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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There are many modules on the CPAN for slicing and dicing email, and we're going to take a whistlestop tour of the major ones. We'll also concentrate on an effort started by myself, Richard Clamp, Simon Wistow, and others, called the Perl Email Project, to produce simple, efficient and accurate mail handling modules.
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By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec.