As war on spam heats up, many valid e-mails are getting lost

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Comdex heats up spam-cooking tools

Comdex heats up spam-cooking tools 11/19/2003 08:02 AM
ZDNet UK Nov 19 2003 5:23AM ET

Writing E-mails will Never Be the Same.
WhiteSmoke Inc. Unveils the First
Patent-Pending all-in-one Solution that
Helps you Instantly Write e-mails Like
an English Pro

Writing E-mails will Never Be the Same.
WhiteSmoke Inc. Unveils the First
Patent-Pending all-in-one Solution that
Helps you Instantly Write e-mails Like
an English Pro 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
This new product by Whitesmoke is the first context-related all-in-one solution for enriching and improving your e-mail writing. WhiteSmoke revolutionary software instantly reviews your entire e-mail and suggests text enrichments (adding words), smart context related thesaurus, spell checker, grammar corrections, as well as dictionary support. You can test drive this powerful technology by visiting: http://www.whitesmoke.com/l [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again?

Have People Lost A Fighting Spirit
Against Spam Or Is Pew Faking The Data
Again? 04/11/2005 05:58 AM
According to the folks at Pew (who are suffering from a credi bility hit these days), people are growing accustomed to spam. It still annoys people to no end, but it's just become so common that people have given up thinking about it or fighting against it, and just think of it as an annoying fact of life, like traffic. Of course, it's not really clear that the data actually says this. Basically, this conclusion appears to be driven by two stats: (1) people trust email less but (2) they're not reading less email -- sort of. The study actually says 22% of people say they are spending less time on email because of spam, which is down from 29% the year before. However, it's a bit of a stretch to conclude from this one data point that people are resigned to spam. It could mean that email simply has become more important in other aspects. Or, it could mean that most of the people who were really annoyed by spam decreased their email usage last year instead of this year. The problem with the data is that you can't really compare the rate of change this year to last year, because (obviously) they're starting from a different position. Most importantly, this could just be an indication that spam filters have become more effective. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that many people have become resigned to spam -- but the data shown here doesn't actually seem to prove that at all.

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

valid CSS

valid CSS 06/11/2004 05:02 AM

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Test-XML-Valid-0.03

Test-XML-Valid-0.03 06/01/2004 05:09 PM

11 ways to valid RSS

11 ways to valid RSS 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
11 valid RSS documents, highlighting different ways to specify content within an item. Does your aggregator do something sensible with all of them?

Trackback in, valid out (mostly)

Trackback in, valid out (mostly) 06/28/2004 09:41 PM
Jacques Distler: You gonna turn off Trackbacks (which don't declare a charset, and could be sent in any charset imaginable, but very frequently are Windows-1252)? Unless you have a way to guess the charset and re-encode the result to UTF-8, they will invalidate your pages as quick as you can sneeze. It turns out that by design it is rather hard for a string of bytes to accidentally be valid utf-8, unless that string is pure US-ASCII, in which case it doesn't much matter which encoding you presume. ...

"Valid XHTML "

"Valid XHTML " 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

Staying valid

Staying valid 05/02/2004 05:01 PM

Andrei Herasimchuk:

There seems no automatic way to keep a site valid with web standards unless you close it off to the rest of the world to contribute to it. I will not do that anytime soon.

There is: I'm doing it. Next Thursday will mark the one year anniversary of my switching to application/xhtml+xml as the content-type header for this site, for user agents that support it. Using that content-type forces Gecko engine browsers to refuse to render pages if they are not well-formed XML, so if a page is invalid I hear about it pretty quickly.

So how do you keep a frequently updated site with data from external sources and user comments valid? There are really only two things you need to do. Firstly, ensure that everything going IN to the system (entries and comments) is valid XHTML. I do that using a simple validation system for comments and a bookmarklet for my own entries. Secondly, any and all data from external sources (my blogroll from blo.gs, blogmark URLs added using a bookmarklet) needs to be entity-escaped before being displayed on the site. In my case, a call to PHP's htmlspecialchars() function is all that's needed.

I'm not saying my system is ideal - the need for well formed markup in comments is a major usability issue even on a site with an audience consisting mostly of web developers. But it's certainly possible to operate a site in XHTML with frequent updates and user comments while staying valid at the same time.

Test-XML-Valid-0.04

Test-XML-Valid-0.04 06/01/2004 05:09 PM

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict 12/03/2002 11:46 AM

This site is XHTML 1.0 Strict valid. Dang am I happy about that. It took some time getting rid of my old align="center" and <b> tag games, but it sure is worth it.

German Court Says GPL is Valid

German Court Says GPL is Valid 07/23/2004 01:05 PM

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.

HTML Tip: Why Valid Code Matters

HTML Tip: Why Valid Code Matters 12/11/2003 07:20 AM
Net Mechanic Dec 11 2003 5:52AM ET

Church Says Girl's Communion Not Valid
(AP)

Church Says Girl's Communion Not Valid
(AP) 08/19/2004 05:09 PM
AP - An 8-year-old girl who suffers from a rare digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine.

Does Google Reward Valid Code?

Does Google Reward Valid Code? 07/01/2002 08:30 AM
"Does Google reward valid HTML (According to W3C standard 4.0 or the XHTML standard)? "

XML Basics Part III: An Example of
Well-Formed and Valid XML

XML Basics Part III: An Example of
Well-Formed and Valid XML 02/10/2004 07:55 PM
Internet.com Feb 11 2004 0:18AM GMT

German court ruled GPL valid

German court ruled GPL valid 07/27/2004 02:02 AM

RIAA Subpoenas for John Does Valid

RIAA Subpoenas for John Does Valid 08/04/2004 03:23 PM

RIM Paid $450 Million For Patents That
Aren't Valid

RIM Paid $450 Million For Patents That
Aren't Valid 04/13/2005 05:18 PM
It was surprising last month that RIM finally gave in to patent hoarder NTP and agreed to pay $450 million to license their portfolio of patents on fairly obvious concepts. This came just a few weeks after NTP paid RIM-competitor Good Technologies to license the same patents. However, while we missed this story last week, Po litech notes that the patent office rejected one of the main patents, and has indicated that it's likely to throw out the rest as well. All this, just three weeks after RIM agreed to pay half a billion to license them. The whole thing sounds pretty questionable. NTP (who might not even really have the rights to these patents) paid one company to license their own patents, pressuring the big fish (RIM) to then license them less than a month before the patent office rejected them. Whoever agreed to this deal on RIM's part really has quite a few questions to answer. They just gave up half a billion for invalid patents on an obvious idea, after the company that might not own those patents had to pay off another company to license them. What was RIM thinking?

CNN.com - Church says girl's communion
not valid - Aug 19, 2004

CNN.com - Church says girl's communion
not valid - Aug 19, 2004 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
Child’s wheat allergy sees her first communion invalidated .. Catholic Church again woefully out of touch .. you are a tool of Satan

cnn.com/2004/US/08/19/communion.denied.ap/index.html
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XML Boulevard Lesson 15 - Valid XML,
DTDs and schemas

XML Boulevard Lesson 15 - Valid XML,
DTDs and schemas 07/18/2004 12:49 AM

Yahoo! News - Church Says Girl's
Communion Not Valid

Yahoo! News - Church Says Girl's
Communion Not Valid 08/22/2004 09:23 AM
Girl allergic to communion wafers may go to hell .. Wheat allergy keeps 8-year-old girl out of heaven .. Quote:

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=12&u=/ap/commu nion_denied
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ArGoSoft FTP Server reveals valid
usernames and allows for brute force
attacks

ArGoSoft FTP Server reveals valid
usernames and allows for brute force
attacks 12/31/2004 02:14 PM
steven_at_lovebug.org (Dec 31 2004)

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up

Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up 05/24/2004 05:37 PM
The latest study on spam trends appears to show that financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam - though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to slow down the amount of spam sent.

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

Google, e-mails and the law

Google, e-mails and the law 09/01/2004 02:30 AM
PC Plus UK Sep 1 2004 6:52AM GMT

Stations Get E-Mails to Oust Dan Rather
(AP)

Stations Get E-Mails to Oust Dan Rather
(AP) 09/23/2004 03:33 PM
AP - Station managers at several CBS affiliates said Thursday they appear to be a target of a national e-mail campaign placing pressure on the network to oust Dan Rather as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News."

From tracking nukes to e-mails

From tracking nukes to e-mails 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
ZDNet May 13 2004 12:22PM GMT

Will Collier E-Mails With a Question

Will Collier E-Mails With a Question 03/14/2005 04:36 PM
And I ask one back: Is the point to have a dialogue with the MSM or cause its destruction? Please advise.

Man charged over tsunami e-mails

Man charged over tsunami e-mails 01/02/2005 08:45 PM
Police have charged a man in connection with hoax e-mails sent to the families of people missing after the Asia tsunami.

E-mails become trial for courts

E-mails become trial for courts 04/11/2005 03:24 AM
Chicagotribune.com - Sun Apr 10, 10:51 am GMT

U.S. charges four under new law against
'spam' e-mails

U.S. charges four under new law against
'spam' e-mails 05/02/2004 12:14 AM

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream

From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream 06/05/2004 07:31 PM
I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....

Hoax 'quake dead' e-mails sent

Hoax 'quake dead' e-mails sent 01/02/2005 04:26 AM
Police are investigating a series of hoax e-mails sent to those with loved ones missing after the Asian tsunami.

Judge to Microsoft: Search for e-mails

Judge to Microsoft: Search for e-mails 05/24/2004 12:19 PM
ZDNet May 24 2004 3:47PM GMT
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