Encoding E-Mail Addresses to Fool Spammers

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Fool spammers with multiple e-mail
addresses

Fool spammers with multiple e-mail
addresses 12/16/2003 10:00 PM
ZDNet Australia Dec 16 2003 9:22PM ET

Way to Foil Spammers when Posting E-mail
Addresses?

Way to Foil Spammers when Posting E-mail
Addresses? 09/04/2004 01:43 PM
Has anyone tried this? Does it work for you?

"Spammers use text from novels to fool
Bayesian filters"

"Spammers use text from novels to fool
Bayesian filters" 12/03/2003 09:47 PM

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers

AOL Employee Arrested For Selling Email
Addresses To Spammers 06/23/2004 07:00 PM
People have always claimed that AOL often gave out their email addresses to spammers, though many have questioned whether or not that was true. One that that's clear is they make it way too easy for employees of the company to access customer information. A few months ago we wrote about an AOL customer service rep who used the info she had access to in order to insinuate herself into the lives of celebrities who used AOL. The latest is that a 24-year-old engineer at the company has been arrested for selling a database of 92 million AOL user email addresses along with their phone numbers and zip codes. He sold this database to some spammers for about $50,000. How long until a class action suit is filed by AOL customers because the company didn't protect their info?

AOL Employee Who Sold Addresses To
Spammers Pleads Guilty, But Court Says
No

AOL Employee Who Sold Addresses To
Spammers Pleads Guilty, But Court Says
No 12/22/2004 01:16 AM
That didn't work out as planned. Earlier this year, an AOL employee was arrested for selli ng 92 million AOL email addresses to spammers. Apparently, he had worked out a plea bargain with prosecutors, and was scheduled to show up in court today and plead guilty. In return, he was expected to get some amount of jailtime. However, while that News.com story isn't yet updated, it turns out that the judge has refused to accept the plea, claiming that he's not convinced a crime was actually committed. While giving away information on 92 million email addresses certainly seems like it should be a crime, it looks like the guy was charged under everyone's favorite anti-spam act: CAN SPAM. The problem, is that it's not clear he actually violated that law. The judge, who claims he got rid of his own AOL email address because it got too much spam, wants to look over the details more carefully to make sure a crime was actually committed.

Add more Text Encoding options to
Apple's Mail

Add more Text Encoding options to
Apple's Mail 09/08/2004 10:57 AM
Whenever a user enters non-ASCII characters in a new message (accented latin vowels or Japanese letters, for example), Apple's Mail will try, by default, to encode the text in Unicode character encoding. The user still has th...

Disposable E-mail Addresses

Disposable E-mail Addresses 06/17/2004 04:29 PM
Business Knowledge Source Jun 17 2004 7:57PM GMT

"By including random text the
spammers hope to fool the filters into
thinking that a human, not a spammer,
wrote the message."

"By including random text the
spammers hope to fool the filters into
thinking that a human, not a spammer,
wrote the message." 12/03/2003 05:14 AM
cutting and pasting the text from various classic pieces of literature .. Spammers turn to classic prose .. BBC

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Mark addresses for multiple domains in
Mail

Mark addresses for multiple domains in
Mail 09/24/2004 12:08 PM
In Panther, there's a new feature in Mail called "Mark addresses not in this domain." You'll find it on the Composing pane of Mail's preferences. Thus, if you send an email to an address outside of that domain, it's marked in...

"E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really
Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone"

"E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really
Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone" 08/28/2004 02:53 AM

Send Mail to each of a user's unique
email addresses

Send Mail to each of a user's unique
email addresses 05/25/2004 10:14 AM
I use Address Book group a lot when sending out emails. One thing that I found frustrating was that I could not send to multiple email addresses for a single user when using groups, so that they would receive the email at bo...

spamcop.net allows everyone to grab mail
addresses and reset passwords

spamcop.net allows everyone to grab mail
addresses and reset passwords 08/10/2004 02:04 PM
Henning Schmiedehausen (Aug 10 2004)

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses

USCity.net Foils Spam Attempt to
Millions of AOL E-Mail Addresses 06/29/2004 02:19 AM
In March of this year USCity.net intercepted and captured the first of over 3000 spam blasts to millions of AOL clients. These attempted spam blasts directed at AOL clients are still continuing. [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: E-mail
Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to
Give Out Over the Phone.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: E-mail
Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to
Give Out Over the Phone. 08/28/2004 04:46 AM
E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

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AOL, Spammers, and Mail Forwarding

AOL, Spammers, and Mail Forwarding 03/31/2005 05:43 PM

Here's an interesting situation with a host I use. AOL is getting confused as to the actual source of email marked as spam, and mail forwarding servers are getting dinged as a result.

[...] some customers have content filter rules to send all mail for their domain or for their mailbox to @aol.com addresses. These customers then go into their @aol.com accounts and read their mail and mark messages as spam. When these customers mark messages as spam, AOL now has counters in place that record the mail server it came from.

Therefore, in order to meet the guidelines and thresholds imposed by AOL, we will soon be shutting off the ability to forward emails to @aol.com addresses.

Crappy situation, but I can see why they have no choice but to shut off forwarding.

Key Internet Naming Patent Covering Use
of Identical URL and E-Mail Addresses
Awarded to Nizza Group

Key Internet Naming Patent Covering Use
of Identical URL and E-Mail Addresses
Awarded to Nizza Group 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
CPU Review Jan 9 2004 6:20PM ET

Fool.com: Printing on a Pringle [Motley
Fool Take] May 25, 2004

Fool.com: Printing on a Pringle [Motley
Fool Take] May 25, 2004 06/08/2004 01:53 PM
Proctor and Gamble to print advertisements on individual Pringles chips

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Federal bounty may nab e-mail spammers

Federal bounty may nab e-mail spammers 09/17/2004 10:38 AM

Study: Spammers use e-mail ID to gain
legitimacy

Study: Spammers use e-mail ID to gain
legitimacy 09/08/2004 05:58 PM
Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.

EarthLink Sues Alleged E-Mail Spammers

EarthLink Sues Alleged E-Mail Spammers 02/18/2004 06:53 PM
AP via Newsday Feb 18 2004 11:11PM GMT

Spammers unleash e-mail worm to disable
critics

Spammers unleash e-mail worm to disable
critics 12/03/2003 06:06 PM
The worm, W32/Mimail-L, comes as an attachment in an e-mail purporting to be from a woman named Wendy who details an erotic encounter and then offers naked photographs.

E-mail spammers face Microsoft, Spitzer
suit

E-mail spammers face Microsoft, Spitzer
suit 12/20/2003 08:30 PM
Deccan Herald Dec 20 2003 7:41PM ET

INTERNET: Spammers sending users less
junk e-mail, AOL says

INTERNET: Spammers sending users less
junk e-mail, AOL says 12/28/2004 09:09 AM
Chicago Tribune Dec 28 2004 12:22PM GMT

Dutch telecom watchdog issues first
fines against e-mail spammers

Dutch telecom watchdog issues first
fines against e-mail spammers 12/30/2004 12:05 PM

E-Mail Spammers Target Share Tips in
Latest Scam (Reuters)

E-Mail Spammers Target Share Tips in
Latest Scam (Reuters) 04/20/2004 01:46 AM
Reuters - Pumping up highly volatile share prices in small companies with a barrage of bullish e-mails is the latest get-rich-quick scam deployed by e-mail spammers.

Sentinare Messaging Solutions, an E-mail
Security Company Makes Spammers Pay With
a New Technique Called "Tarpitting"

Sentinare Messaging Solutions, an E-mail
Security Company Makes Spammers Pay With
a New Technique Called "Tarpitting" 07/28/2004 04:21 AM
Sentinare Messaging Solutions, an e-mail security company introduces an anti-spam technique called "Tarpitting" in which Sentinare ties up the connection of spammers and binds their resources. Tarpitting costs spammers precious time and money, hitting them where it hurts: their pocket book. [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE

Anti-Spam - Fight Back Against Spammers
junk unsolicited unwanted bulk huge
commercial email spams e-mail! FREE 04/24/2004 11:48 AM
Anti-Spam - Fight Back

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Referer spammers are comment spammers
too

Referer spammers are comment spammers
too 02/01/2005 10:08 PM
Is there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy, and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers 06/11/2004 12:55 PM
It looks like the various spam laws that help legalize spam are making the spammers extra litigious. Following a lawsuit in the US by a spammer against an anti-spam operation for still block their email, some spammers in the UK are threatening Spamhaus with lawsuits for still having them on their blacklist. The problem is that, just because the law now gives them the permission to spam, it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to make their own private efforts to block them. The laws may allow them to send their spam, but there's nothing in these laws that require people to receive it.

iPod Encoding?

iPod Encoding? 05/25/2004 06:43 AM
Appleinsider sources report that Apple is planning on using a new microchip for the upcoming 4th generation iPods. The new microchip is said to i...

encoding-warnings-0.05

encoding-warnings-0.05 07/15/2004 11:39 PM

iTunes Encoding Strategies

iTunes Encoding Strategies 09/17/2004 01:48 PM

HTML charset vs XML encoding

HTML charset vs XML encoding 02/13/2004 03:57 PM

Dare Obasanjo: Mark Pilgrim has a post entitled Determining the character encoding of a feed where he does good job of sumarizing what the various specs say about determining the character encoding of an XML document retrieved on the World Wide Web via HTTP. The only problem with his post is that although it is a fairly accurate description of what the specs say it definitely does not reflect reality.

OK, so given this, what should a feedvalidator do?  Should it follow the specifications?  Should it follow Dare's recommendations?  Should it issue a warning if the specifications and Dare's recommendations differ for a given feed?

Lossless encoding in iTunes

Lossless encoding in iTunes 04/28/2004 05:55 AM
Apple released iTunes 4.5 with a bunch of new features. One of the most interesting is lossless encoding. I'm looking forward to playing with that, even if it might not be terribly useful with my ~25GB mp3s and a 4GB iPod. Also new convert WMA files to play them on the iPod, a "Party Shuffle" rolling random playlist queue you can reorganize and a "Print CD inserts with album cover art" feature. After upgrading I recommend you hurry to the...

A new encoding to replace entities?

A new encoding to replace entities? 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Tim Bray and John Cowan have published an IETF Internet Draft in order to define a new XML encoding for expanding HTML and MathML entities.

Trackbacks, Queries, and Encoding

Trackbacks, Queries, and Encoding 05/26/2004 10:34 AM
This morning, I got a trackback from a Korean weblog.  Unfortunately, if you look at how a typical trackback is sent, you see that character encoding information is not provided. Something to think about the next time you are tempted to think that you can get queries for free.  While both HTTP and XML provide mechanisms for defining encoding, support in widely deployed implementations is much better in XML than in straight HTTP. URI's seem to be converging on UTF-8, albeit at an excruciatingly slow pace.  Don't leave this to chance - if you are defining a GenerativeNaming scheme today, make this explicit. If you are defining a protocol based on HTTP POST, encourage the use of the charset parameter on the Content-Type header.  Require it if you can.

Text Encoding Progress

Text Encoding Progress 04/01/2005 02:04 PM
It’s good to see the IETF showing forward motion on the vital issues around how to store text efficiently; check out the brand-new RFC4042 on UTF-9 and UTF-18. Good stuff.
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