Spamholes Fighting Spammers

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Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1

Fighting Spammers With Honeypots: Part 1 01/06/2005 12:02 PM

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.

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?

Fighting pop-ups

Fighting pop-ups 01/18/2004 08:17 PM
Standard pop-ups: Many tools, some of which are free, block the pop-ups that are displayed by Web sites. One of the most popular is offered by Google. ...

Fighting the last war

Fighting the last war 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
From 60 Minutes, Clarke's Take On Terror (Clarke was the White House terrorism adviser). "There's a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too. But on January 24th, 2001, I wrote a memo to Condoleezza Rice asking for, urgently -- underlined urgently -- a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo-- wasn't acted on. "I blame the entire Bush leadership for continuing to work on Cold War issues...

SAP comes out fighting

SAP comes out fighting 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
NetWeaver 2004 will go head-to-head WebSphere and BizTalk, according to a CNET News.com story, SAP plan could spawn ...

What We're Fighting For

What We're Fighting For 05/22/2004 03:39 PM
A newly formed women's group mounts undercover missions near American military bases to improve troop morale: "If you are out there partying and engage in casual sex you might as well 'Take One for the Country.'"

Fighting Content Rot

Fighting Content Rot 07/11/2004 12:35 AM

If you manage a Web site for more than a few months, you run into problems of content rot. You'll be cruising through some old pages, and you'll find stuff that's...off, for one reason for another.

For instance, when this blog first started, I was anal-retentive about enclosing BLOCKQUOTEd text in quotes. It was a quote, after all. I would go through all the text I quoted, find double quotes, convert them to singles, then surround the entire thing in double-quotes before BLOCKQUOTEing the entire thing.

Now, this was very admirable of me, but when I started inviting others to blog with me, that whole concept broke down. Not everyone was doing it, and since it wasn't consistent, I didn't want to do it at all. However, there are still a thousand or so entries sitting out there with quotes around them.

Just recently, we started to standardize code fragments we post with by using the CODE tag and the Sim pleCode script. There remain, however, a hundred or so posts with code hacked up in BLOCKQUOTEs or DIVs or God knows what.

These aren't an isolated cases — there are styles that we've since abandoned, double-dashes that haven't been replaced with the — entity, etc. I try to nail these things as entries hit the site, but I miss some. On top of all this, throw in link rot — links that just 404 over time — and comments. Ugh, comments...

I try to stay on top of comment spam, but I'm sure some get through. Additionally, there are stupid comments that slip by (why do people insist on testing my comment form with 'fgfgfgfgfgf' all the time?), and comments that aren't relevant any longer — people complaining about bad links that I've fixed or mis-spellings that I've corrected.

Categorization is another thing. I added the Temple of Mac category at about entry #1,600. However, I didn't bother to go back through all the old entries and move all the Mac-related entries to the new category.

Mix all this together, and you have a site that doesn't really age well. I'm sure if I tooled through 100 old entries, I'd have something that needed to be fixed or corrected in at least 40 of them. How do you handle this? Gadgetopia is hurtling toward entry number 3,000, and that's a lot of volume.

I've often thought that I should create a script that just generated 10 random entries a day for me to review. Each morning, I'd get an email with 10 entries in it that I need to look over and touch up. But how do you make sure you get them all before you start getting duplicates? I suppose you could log them all in a table and then join the entries table against it to filter out entries that had already been covered. Like this:

SELECT e.entry_id FROM mt_entries e LEFT JOIN already_reviewed e ON e.entry_id = r.id WHERE r.id IS NULL ORDER BY RAND LIMIT 10

(I haven't tested this SQL, mind you.) Wrap some PHP around this, schedule it for the middle of the night, and you'd have 10 entries every morning that you can tune up. Perhaps I'd send 10 to myself, and three or so to each of the rest of the authors.

I think, however, I'm going to try something different. I'm on the verge of putting another sidebar on the front page called "One Year Ago Today" that lists the things were we talking about a year ago (see the OnThisDay plugin). I'll schedule an automatic rebuild of the front page every morning at 1:00 a.m., then check the year-old entries while I'm eating my Crunchy Corn Bran in the morning.

Maybe this will work, maybe it won't. If someone wants to take a stab at the mailer script (or if you already have), please post a link. If anyone else has any thoughts about content rot, let's hear them.

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Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps
Fighting 05/17/2004 12:02 PM
Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind American voters of something: He's still here.

"Fighting Failure"

"Fighting Failure" 09/27/2004 11:18 AM

But I'm fighting Hitler..!

But I'm fighting Hitler..! 11/10/2003 10:48 PM
Daredevil and Captain America Hang Out... at the Quickstop.
(Warning: Flash --and geekfare!-- follow.)

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting

Down but Not Out, Kucinich Keeps On
Fighting 05/16/2004 10:44 PM
Before Americans get too engrossed in a showdown between President Bush and Senator John Kerry, Dennis J. Kucinich would like to remind them of something: He's still out here.

Fighting back

Fighting back 01/06/2005 04:59 PM
USA Today Jan 6 2005 8:02PM GMT

The ignorance you're fighting against

The ignorance you're fighting against 08/13/2004 03:47 AM
Folks, it appears that you haven't been doing your job, or perhaps you're just being ignored. I'm speaking to both vendors and IT personnel here. The security execs and "senior IT" people don't seem to get it when we talk about identity management.

Eriksson comes out fighting

Eriksson comes out fighting 08/14/2004 02:48 AM
England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson slams the media after the recent FA controversy.

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting

Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting 12/15/2003 04:29 PM
More misguide copyright protection fun: Miramax demands Kung Fu site remove link to a site that USED to sell a current Miramax property

"Fighting together for one America"

"Fighting together for one America" 07/06/2004 09:52 AM

Fighting ID theft

Fighting ID theft 06/08/2004 07:28 AM
USA Today Jun 8 2004 11:57AM GMT

Spammers

Spammers 09/07/2004 02:49 AM
I haven't said anything about spam in a while. I've stopped keeping track of my monthly intake, no longer look...

Everyone Sue Some Spammers

Everyone Sue Some Spammers 02/18/2004 12:07 PM
Who knew? Apparently, today is a "sue a spammer day" (though, perhaps it should be every day) as both Earthlink and AOL have announced lawsuits filed against spammers. Earthlink is going after an Alabama spam ring. Instead of relying on weak anti-spam laws, Earthlink is charging them with violating racketeering laws. It sounds like a fairly sophisticated operation, using a variety of fake identities and rapidly changing websites to avoid detection. Meanwhile, AOL is going after a Florida company who they had sued once before, but which was thrown out over questions about jurisdiction. This time, the lawsuit was filed in Florida, rather than in Virginia.

Take My Spammers... Please...

Take My Spammers... Please... 09/09/2004 10:39 AM

Interesting story from the BBC about giant service provider Savvis’ internal debate over whether to expunge spammers from their network. The article details their angst over hosting spammers vs their love of that sweet green cash.

Alif Terranson, a former Savvis employee who was responsible for keeping the network clean, objected to the spammers and wrote a 200-page report detailing his complaints about the spammers.

He told the BBC: “One of the Vice Presidents told me, ‘Take no action against any Cable & wireless customer - they are profitable and they are off limits.’

“He was talking specifically about that 200-page report which at the time was 95 spammers. When I left Savvis in April it was almost 100, today it is 148.

Two hundred pages? I don’t like spam, but I doubt I could write that much on it. Maybe he should have mailed it a page at a time with subjects like ‘H3RE’5 TH4T B1G SP4M RE.PoRT!!! F4NTASTIC REEDING!!!’

After being threatened with blacklisting by anti-spam groups, they finally decided to give the spammers their walking papers, but it goes to show you just how hard spam is to get rid of. The lost profits of these customers is small potatoes to the world’s second largest provider, but Mom & Pop providers would probably be loathe to get rid of them.

Via Multiple Sources.

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"spammers"

"spammers" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

Fighting spam with insults?

Fighting spam with insults? 06/01/2004 03:50 AM
One of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while. Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a...

Verizon, Qwest still fighting for MCI

Verizon, Qwest still fighting for MCI 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
ZDNet Mar 16 2005 4:40PM GMT

Fighting Infections with Data

Fighting Infections with Data 09/20/2004 01:04 AM
Technology Review Sep 20 2004 5:40AM GMT

Saudi: U.S. fighting "colonial war"

Saudi: U.S. fighting "colonial war" 05/24/2004 02:05 PM

Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting

Nine killed in Sri Lanka fighting 04/09/2004 04:03 PM

Fighting intensifies in S Ossetia

Fighting intensifies in S Ossetia 08/19/2004 05:54 AM
Heavy shelling again rocks Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, delivering a fresh blow to peace efforts.

Two die in South Ossetia fighting

Two die in South Ossetia fighting 08/18/2004 06:39 AM
Clashes with separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia kill two Georgian soldiers.

Fighting Conventional Wisdom

Fighting Conventional Wisdom 08/17/2004 11:05 AM
Why 2004 won't be like 1984. A phenomenal read detailing why Apple's reluctance to open up iPod is not the harbinger of doom that so many pundits claim it is. The horror! Apple may have learned from its mistakes with Macintosh 20 years ago and guess what? Macintosh's failure had little to do with licensing. That is, if you agree with the analysis over at daringfireball.net. This article points out why the media pundits are wrong about Apple's reluctance to open up iPod and shows why their position today is entirely different, and stronger, than 20 years ago. Let the flame wars begin!

Fighting Online Extortion

Fighting Online Extortion 09/19/2004 11:24 AM

"Rumsfeld Fighting Technique"

"Rumsfeld Fighting Technique" 06/06/2004 03:13 AM

Fighting Wildfire with Gasoline?

Fighting Wildfire with Gasoline? 05/26/2004 09:26 PM

According to a recent report from International Institute of Strategic Studies, thinktank,

Iraq has become the new magnet of Al-Qaeda's war against the United States ... The US-led war in Iraq has increased the risk to Western interests in Arab countries.

I didn't enjoy reading the editorial, but I found myself nodding my head.  Urgh.

Sun's fighting chance

Sun's fighting chance 09/20/2004 02:55 PM
Forrester CEO George Colony argues that if Sun goes down, it's going to go down taking very big swings.

Fighting VOIP Hype

Fighting VOIP Hype 05/17/2004 08:44 AM
Jeff Pulver: "Looking at some of the recent local and regional news coverage in the US regarding 'VoIP', it is clear to me that the term 'VoIP' is now being used to describe a new wave of competition to incumbent telephone service and not much more. For me, this is a disturbing trend."

Words Worth Fighting For

Words Worth Fighting For 09/27/2004 05:19 AM
Weasel words and truth telling.

Fighting spam: Opting out is in

Fighting spam: Opting out is in 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
Straits Times Jun 23 2004 5:26AM GMT

Fighting Cyber-Crime

Fighting Cyber-Crime 01/03/2005 02:43 PM
InternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 6:46PM GMT

Fighting Resumes In Najaf

Fighting Resumes In Najaf 05/28/2004 10:51 AM
Free Internet Press May 28 2004 3:08PM GMT
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