Beat Spam By Not Using Email

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Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)

Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP) 05/12/2004 04:17 AM
AFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs Internet traffic worldwide.

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives

Actif Communications Announces GEF, the
Global eMail Format - Best Practice
eMails that Comply with US Can Spam,
Australian Spam Act and EU Directives 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
The risk in sending commercial emails overseas is not so much from the legislators; it is from the ISP’s who have the power to Black List your company. A new email format has been suggested that not only complies to Best Practices it also meets or exceeds the requirements of Can Spam, The Australian Spam Act and the EU Directives. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea

Mobile SMS spam surpasses email spam in
Korea 01/03/2005 10:21 AM

Email Spam worse now that Can-Spam is
Here

Email Spam worse now that Can-Spam is
Here 02/10/2004 02:45 AM

Has anyone else noticed that now that the Can-Spam Act passed by the federal government has gone into effect, spam via email is actually worse than it was?

This is ridiculous. In the past week I've received at least 4-5 times more spam than I did in a week last year...

I'd like to install a server-side spam filtering system that's compatible with qmail, but I don't have the time or knowledge to actually get it installed... especially since I've been considering buying a Handspring Treo 600 to check my email more regularly...

Although, I wonder if I'm getting more spam because of the social networks I've joined in the past couple of weeks? Hmmm... I'm going to change those email addresses now...

Anyone want to install a server side spam filter system for me on the cheap?

Survey: Spam will beat Bill Gates

Survey: Spam will beat Bill Gates 04/30/2004 09:10 AM
A survey of IT security professionals conducted at the Infosecurity show in London this week revealed that more than 80 percent of people do not think that Bill Gates' pledge to eliminate spam within two years is realistic. In June 2003, the Microsoft chairman called for cooperation between government and corporations to fight the spammers. But Gates was branded hypocritical by anti-spam organizations because they said that Microsoft was only focusing on reducing the amount of spam received, rather than the spam sent by its users and servers.

One third of email now spam

One third of email now spam 04/20/2004 08:39 AM
Cost to business measured in millions

X % of email is Spam

X % of email is Spam 07/06/2004 09:51 PM
85% of all email is spam. 83% of all email is spam. Between 80 and 90% of all email is spam. 80% of all email is spam. 76%< /a> of all email is spam. Between 64 and 78% of all email is spam. 64% of all email is spam. 63%< /a> of all email is spam. 60% of all email is spam. 52% of all email in 2004 will be spam. 50% of all email is spam. By 2006 98% of all email will be spam.

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too

Now We Need A Company To Tell Us When
Our Email Is Spam Too 01/09/2004 09:50 PM
It's really quite impressive how many other businesses spam has generated. There are all the anti-spam companies, and now there's even a company that will monitor if your (one assumes) legitimate email is being called spam. Return Path has a bunch of email accounts at major ISPs and signed up for various spam blocking services. They also monitor all the various blacklists - and will alert you (if you're a big company and you pay them money) if your emails are getting stopped by a spam blocker. They'll also tell you why and make suggestions on how to de-spamify your email. Anyone else think things are getting even more ridiculous when you have to pay a company to make sure your perfectly legitimate email isn't being blocked?

Email Spam and Phishing

Email Spam and Phishing 05/12/2004 05:18 PM
WebDevInfo May 12 2004 8:18PM GMT

One third of email now spam | The
Register

One third of email now spam | The
Register 04/22/2004 05:17 AM
one third of email is now spam .. The Register

theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/idc_spam_survey
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You get all the email you can handle -
and all the spam you deserve

You get all the email you can handle -
and all the spam you deserve 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
Janka speaks of spam, everyones' favourite subject. I got 4700 filtered spam messages in six weeks (and a bunch that got through). On one account. More on others, to a perhaps of 6000-7000 messages total. That's about a thousand a week, or 150/day.

There's a theory that everyone gets the amount of spam they deserve. There's also a theory that suggests that if you stop receiving spam, you don't exist any more. Or that if you read aloud all the spam you receive for a year and a day, you will be granted three wishes by the Xanax fairy. I believe that one of them must have something to do with the size of your penis, though.

Whatever the case, it has been suggested that everyone always gets more email than what they can handle - I've heard people complain that "I got FOUR emails today - I'm swamped". I get perhaps fifty legitimate emails on the average (not counting mailing lists), and I think that's about the limit I can handle. Is there anyone out there who thinks they are getting too few emails?

Stop Spam by charging to email?

Stop Spam by charging to email? 12/12/2003 12:52 PM

My ISP Said A Link Request Email Was
Spam

My ISP Said A Link Request Email Was
Spam 12/24/2004 12:32 PM
"...So now my ISP sent me a warning saying that they will terminate the account if they get another report."

Flood of spam hit 92.5% of email in
August

Flood of spam hit 92.5% of email in
August 09/02/2004 09:24 PM

Unplugging Email To Combat Spam

Unplugging Email To Combat Spam 06/23/2004 03:58 PM

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam

Email viruses are more annoying than
spam 06/15/2004 03:47 AM
I've had my primary email address for many years, and I also get email through a number of work-related aliases, including editors at newsforge.com, roblimo at slashdot.org, and rmiller at osdn.com. So I get spam. Tons of spam. And I filter it all. I filter viruses, too, not because they can affect my Linux computer, but because they suck up bandwidth. And my virus email traffic now exceeds my spam traffic by a factor of at least two to one.

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

DevArticles: Email Without the Side of
Spam

DevArticles: Email Without the Side of
Spam 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
If you're working on a site that posts personal information out there on the web - beware! There are any number of spambots and programs out there that work to search through pages and find anything that even vaugely looks like an email address and add it to it's arsenal. Thankfully, there are articles like this one from DevArticles that show you how to protect your users.

Spam email CD contents analyzed

Spam email CD contents analyzed 01/02/2004 02:35 PM
A fascinating analysis of the contents of a "millions of email addresses" CDROM acquired via a spam-advertisement:

You can find a number of addresses you don't want to send spam to. The spammer didn't even remove the abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses, 175 and 561 respectively. Both of them have doubles themselves. These role accounts include respectable providers that have a widely known anti-spam policy: the abuse desk of XS4ALL appears 5 times, the abuse desk of Planet three times and their postmasters will receive the spam three times each.

Role accounts not only encompass abuse desks or Network Operation Centers, but also operational accounts like 'hostmaster' and 'postmaster', who have to deal with requests from customers and feedback from key institutions like ARIN and RIPE or domain registrars. Spamming those accounts has several drawbacks for a spammer, their spam is most definitely not wanted by the recipient. It isn't too farfetched to state that online businesses (that mostly have to rely on e-mail for direct customer contact) might be facing increasing difficulties coping with the loss incurred by spam, both technically and financially.

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DNA Sequencing Technique Fights Spam
Email

DNA Sequencing Technique Fights Spam
Email 08/22/2004 03:16 PM
What's impressive is that an algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam. What's even more surprising is it wasn't developed for fighting unsolicited email -- it was created to analyze DNA and amino acid sequences for recurring patterns, which often indicate genetic structures that have an important role.

Chung-Kwei is based on the Teiresias algorithm, developed by the bioinformatics research group at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York, US. Instead of chains of characters representing DNA sequences, the research group fed the algorithm 65,000 examples of known spam. Each email was treated as a long, DNA-like chain of characters. Teiresias identified six million recurring patterns in this collection, such as "Viagra".

IBM intends to include Chung-Kwei in its commercial product, SpamGuru. Justin Mason, who developed SpamAssassin, one of the most popular open-source anti-spam filters, says that Chung-Kwei looks promising.

"I think there is still a lot of work to be done. But what is exciting is not the particular algorithm, but the fact that IBM has shown there is the entire field of bioinformatics techniques to explore in the fight against spam."

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Email lists struggle under spam
avalanche

Email lists struggle under spam
avalanche 04/14/2004 02:36 PM

A visual history of spam (and virus)
email

A visual history of spam (and virus)
email 09/19/2004 09:56 AM
A visual history of spam (and virus) email .. graphed the spams and viruses .. graph

weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.aspx
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Will California ’ s Spam Law Kill Your
Email Marketing ?

Will California ’ s Spam Law Kill Your
Email Marketing ? 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
You will grow your list fast if your Web site is built to be friendly to Google, which along with its syndicate partners (AOL and Yahoo) will send lots of ...

Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM

Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Today I ran across an entry on Dave Sifry's weblog that noted that Technorati was hiring. I went to Technorati's job page and found a job that looks like it was made for me, as good as the dream job that got away from me a year ago. Excitedly, I sat down and wrote up a cover letter, pointing out all the ways in which I would be a perfect fit for the job (and thinking about how much fun it would be). At the end, I debated how to include my resume. If Dave is processing applicants through a recruiter, they probably want resumes in Microsoft Word, which seems to be the only format that most recruiters can deal with, for reasons unknown to me. On the other hand, Dave is a longtime Linux geek. I remember that I've exchanged emails with him in the past. I check my email archive -- aha, my last email from him was written using Ximian Evolution 1.4. Better include my resume inline as ASCII as well, with a link to the online version of my resume, I think. So I send off my resume and cover letter and happily turn to other tasks. Half an hour later I check email, and do my usual quick scan through my junkmail folder. What do I spot but the cc'd copy of my cover letter and resume. I just started testing a new version of the Spamnix spam filter that added Bayesian filtering. Spamnix is a Eudora plug-in based on Spam Assassin. It decided that the email and resume that I sent to Dave was SPAM: SPAM: ------------------------ Spamnix Spam Report ------------------------- SPAM: Spamnix identified this message as spam. This report shows which SPAM: rules matched the message and how many points each rule contributed. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.4 hits, 5.0 required) SPAM: 5.4 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% Apparently words like Standards, Marketing, System, Proven, Global, Experience, President, Technologies, Product, Project, Manager, Director, Startups, and Software, which appear in my resume, are also common in the spam I receive. To some degree this makes sense -- resumes and cover letters, like spam, are a form of self-promotion. This is probably one of the reasons that I find job hunting painful, since I was trained to be modest about my accomplishments, and am shy by nature. But it creates...

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam

Setting up an Email Gateway to Block
Spam 04/26/2004 07:39 AM

Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might
Reduce Spam

Minnesota Senator Says Email Tax Might
Reduce Spam 11/19/2003 10:32 AM

Get Rid Of Spam By Moving Email To A
Walled Garden

Get Rid Of Spam By Moving Email To A
Walled Garden 09/10/2004 01:18 PM
The folks at Techworld are having fun this morning making fun of a new "not email" system called "dmail" (for digital mail) which is basically a closed off system that only allows messages to pass between dmail users. In other words, just another closed garden. The Techworld explanation of the service is quite funny, including noting that there's already another product called Dmail out there, but the dmail folks insist there's no problem since Dmail is an email product, and they claim dmail isn't email. They also point out that the other Dmail uses a capital "D" so there absolutley couldn't be any trademark infringement (yeah, right). Techworld, as you might imagine, isn't that enthusiastic about dmail's chances.

Email gateway products get smart with
spam

Email gateway products get smart with
spam 05/25/2004 01:14 PM
ZDNet UK May 25 2004 5:20PM GMT

POP SPAM-Free Email to Palm OS Handheld

POP SPAM-Free Email to Palm OS Handheld 05/24/2004 06:01 AM

Spam-filters bounce email about
spam-filters

Spam-filters bounce email about
spam-filters 01/19/2004 01:55 PM
Spam-filters are trained to catch anything that looks like spam, including discussions of spam and spam-filters.

"Patterns of e-mail use are definitely being impacted both by spam and by antispam filters," said Craig Hughes, chief architect at McAfee Security and co-developer of the open-source SpamAssassin spam-filter project.

"I myself run into the problem all the time, mainly because what I'm corresponding about frequently involves discussions of spam or particular spam strategies..."

"I've lost count of the number of e-mails that get bounced back thanks to spam filters getting triggered by completely innocent words and phrases," said Suresh Ramasubramanian, head of security and antispam operations for managed mail-services firm Outblaze.

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CipherTrust adds email encryption to
help fight spam

CipherTrust adds email encryption to
help fight spam 07/22/2004 01:12 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 22 2004 5:27AM GMT

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine

Email Marketers Struggling With Can
Spam, Spammers Doing Just Fine 06/01/2004 10:55 AM
It's been quite clear for some time that many spammers have absolutely no intention of paying attention to any spam-related laws, such as CAN-SPAM. However, for (more) legitimate email marketers, the new regulations are already quite a hassle - with many of them failing to follow the requirements, putting them at risk of getting sued. This is a bit amusing, considering it was these so-called "legitimate marketers" who were so adamant about having CAN-SPAM passed in a way that would let them "legitimately" spam more easily. Now, what they're realizing is that they've added more trouble for themselves without doing much of anything to actually stop the spam that drowns out their own messages.

'Large spam attack' hits BT Yahoo! email

'Large spam attack' hits BT Yahoo! email 05/19/2004 07:25 AM
Delays will be sorted today, apparently

German government email crippled by spam
(Reuters)

German government email crippled by spam
(Reuters) 05/19/2004 11:49 PM
Reuters - A flood of half a million unwanted email messages has laid low the accounts of thousands of German politicians and civil servants this week.

Anti-spam email 'caller ID' gets
Microsoft backing

Anti-spam email 'caller ID' gets
Microsoft backing 05/26/2004 04:35 AM
Silicon.com May 26 2004 8:48AM GMT

Is Verizon's Anti-Spam Plan To Block All
Foreign Email?

Is Verizon's Anti-Spam Plan To Block All
Foreign Email? 12/29/2004 10:35 PM
Apparently Verizon is fed up with spam hitting their network, and someone has tuned their spam filters to what might be called an "aggressive" level. The problem, for many people, is that there's no option for the end user, who either has to take it, or find a new service provider. The biggest complaint, so far, seems to be that many foreign emails are automatically blocked -- meaning that friends and relatives cannot contact each other, and even some companies have found that co-workers can't email each other. While it's nice to see Verizon trying to do something, this seems like overkill. Any spam system should at least allow users the option of reviewing the blocked mail and designating which ones are legitimate.

Spam problems undermining email usage:
Pew Trust study

Spam problems undermining email usage:
Pew Trust study 10/29/2003 12:11 AM

According to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project , spam problems are growing as concerns for large numbers of email users.

In large numbers, Internet users report that they trust email less and some even use email less because of spam.

Female users tend to be more bothered by spam than males.

The erosion of trust in email, leading to quick deletes, suspicion of communication from strangers, fear of lost valid messages, and concealing one's email address, especially for personal email accounts away from work, might be the biggest effect of this "critical mass" of spam.

This study's results came as no surprise to many netizens. However, the research is recent and surveys a broad audience .

( Pew Internet and American Life Project )

New Chinese Email Service Promises
Spam-Free Sending

New Chinese Email Service Promises
Spam-Free Sending 01/06/2005 04:26 AM
ChinaTechNews.com Jan 6 2005 8:05AM GMT

New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam

New tool for ISPs, web-based email turns
up the heat on spam 09/03/2002 11:37 AM
IDGNet New Zealand Sep 3 2002 9:05AM ET
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