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Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Make It Harder To Do Business 11/03/2003 11:40 PM
I get inundated with more and more spam every day, and it's frustrating as anything. I want it to stop. However, if politicians insist on passing bad legislation in their attempts to stop spam, that's not going to do any good. I've already complained about the new California legislation and it looks like I'm not alone. A guy who runs a consulting firm and writes for Business Week points out why California's anti-spam law won't do a thing about spam, but will make life more difficult for legitimate small businesses. He describes a situation where he did a very targeted mailing for a company. It's probably up to your definition of spam as to whether or not you consider his mailing spam. I tend to draw the line on whether or not the mailing was "bulk" - which it sounds like his was. I believe that if the email is truly targeted and personalized about a potential business relationship, then it's hard to call it spam. The California law disagrees. In fact, the sponsor of the bill claims that any email contact between two companies is not legitimate if it hasn't been initiated under some other form. That's simply ridiculous. As I've said before, plenty of "commercial" websites contact Techdirt every day about the possibility of partnerships or links. Under California's anti-spam law, I could charge them with spam. I recently heard from a major technology magazine, asking if I would add them to my Quicklinks box. Should I sue them for spam? According to the law, I could.

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam

CAN SPAM Designed To Make Congressmen
Look Good - Not Stop Spam 01/07/2004 06:36 PM
We all know now that the CAN SPAM law is a disaster and is unlikely to do anything useful in the battle against spam. It's also becoming clear that the entire point of the bill was never to stop spam, but to make a few folks in Congress look good (which seems to be the entire point of most politics these days). First, Business Week spends some time comparing the mostly effective federal "Do Not Call" list with CAN SPAM. The DNC list was planned out carefully by the FTC and the FCC, and, while it upset many telemarketers, it was designed in a way to be effective. There was also enough time, and enough publicity given to the list that people knew about it and had the opportunity to sign up for it - while marketers had the ability to prepare on their end as well. With CAN SPAM, however, it was rushed through Congress with little thought towards whether or not it would actually do anything and without any money to actually deal with any of these cases. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports that the sponsors of the bill asked the FTC to sue a spammer the very first week the bill was in effect in order to make a big "splash" so they could pat themselves on the back - even as the spam levels continued to increase. FTC Chair Timothy Muris (who has spoken out against this spam law) apparently laughed them off and pointed out it was impossible to do such a thing. First of all, in order to violate the law, the spammers have to ignore an opt-out request. Then, the FTC would have to track down who the actual spammer was - with no additional funds, because the law didn't provide for them.

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits

California Spam Law: Won't Stop Spam,
Will Increase Lawsuits 11/14/2003 07:29 PM
I hate spam and would like nothing better than to see an effective anti-spam law put on the books. However, as I've said before, the California anti-spam law is not the right law. Plenty of others seem to agree, and everyone believes that the law won't stand up if tested in court. The problem is what do people do until it's been tested? The other question is who is going to take on this law. Luckily, it won't be the Direct Marketing Association, who I don't trust in the slightest. They say they've burned up all their resources fighting the "Do Not Call" list. At a conference among email marketers, some were suggesting that they should file their own lawsuits under the bill in order to purposely clog the court system with such lawsuits. This seems like typical bad marketing thinking that overburdening a system somehow gets extra attention. The right response is that someone who gets sued for doing something that clearly is not spam is going to have to go to court and get the law overturned. Maybe (and this would be the best) it happens to someone who is not associated with an "email marketing" company, but just someone who sends a perfectly reasonable email and gets hit with a lawsuit.

How to stop spam? Don't look to
legislation

How to stop spam? Don't look to
legislation 12/14/2003 09:50 PM
ZDNet Dec 14 2003 9:16PM ET

Microsoft Moves To Stop Spam

Microsoft Moves To Stop Spam 05/07/2004 10:43 AM
Xposed May 7 2004 2:16PM GMT

Spam King Ordered to Stop

Spam King Ordered to Stop 01/05/2005 04:44 PM
theWHIR Jan 5 2005 8:11PM GMT

Stop Spam by charging to email?

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

New Spam Law Won't Stop Number One
Spammer

New Spam Law Won't Stop Number One
Spammer 12/29/2003 06:52 PM
Alan Ralsky is famous as one of the top spammers around, so the NY Times went to see what he had to say about the new CAN SPAM law. While he says that he's upset at how "one-sided" it is, it won't do anything to stop him from spamming. He claims that he'll go legit with a real opt-out address in emails, but it's tough to believe that, when he claims in the same article that he's become an expert at hiding his identity in how he sends out spam. He also says that he can't stop spamming because there's "too much money" to be made - even if (he claims) it's been getting more expensive lately to keep ahead of all those filters. It's also amusing to see him blame "the internet" for "forcing" him to hide his identity online. Perhaps, if he wasn't annoying people by bombarding them with crap they didn't want, he wouldn't have had to hide himself.

Easiest and Best Way to Stop mailto:
spam?

Easiest and Best Way to Stop mailto:
spam? 11/17/2002 09:46 PM
"We have published our email addresses on our web sites for almost 10 years using simple mailto: or forms. In the past year, the amount of spam has become intolerable. "

"Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For
Now

"Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For
Now 01/05/2005 10:18 PM

Stop al Spam: No reinventemos la rueda,
evolucionemos

Stop al Spam: No reinventemos la rueda,
evolucionemos 05/04/2004 06:44 AM

Comcast looks to stop the spam coming
from its network

Comcast looks to stop the spam coming
from its network 05/24/2004 12:19 PM
Infected PCs of Comcast broadband subscribers are one of the largest sources of spam, sending upwards of 800 million e-mails daily. Now Comcast is preparing to fight bac.

Spammers using random words to stop spam

Spammers using random words to stop spam 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Any administrators worth their salt is going to go after spam on many fronts. As I have stated 2-3 times...

Users Increasingly Looking To ISPs To
Stop Spam

Users Increasingly Looking To ISPs To
Stop Spam 06/09/2004 10:35 AM
Just as the news comes out that many ISPs are hesitant to filter spam, Gartner is showing that a small, but growing, number of users are getting fed up with their ISPs inability to stop spam, and would be willing to switch ISPs to get better spam protection. The problem right now, of course, is that it's not easy to get good spam filtering without too many false positives. While users say they want better spam filtering, the false positives can be just as big a problem as getting too much spam. Users are able to set up their own spam filters, of course, but they believe it's their ISPs responsibility. This viewpoint is only going to increase, and users will look to their ISPs to protect them against adware, spyware, phishing, trojans and all other types of attacks as well. ISPs have been taking either an ad hoc or a wait-and-see approach for most of this stuff, but it might make sense for them to start coming up with more comprehensive strategies that really focus on protecting their subscribers - and not just giving lip service to the idea.

Mobile scheme aims to stop spam

Mobile scheme aims to stop spam 07/08/2004 10:31 AM
The mobile industry has launched a scheme to give mobile users more control over premium rate texts.

Experts Don't Believe Bill Gates Can
Stop Spam

Experts Don't Believe Bill Gates Can
Stop Spam 04/30/2004 02:47 PM
Earlier this year, Bill Gates made a splash by announcing that he was spending much of his time trying to come up with ways to fight spam. Unfortunately, most of the methods he listed have been tried before without much luck. Also, many people pointed out that some of the reason spam is such a problem is because of Microsoft security problems (which were not among the things Gates was looking to fix). Well, now the experts have weighed in and they pretty much agree with everyone else: Bill Gates won't be able to stop spam. In fact, many seem to think it's fairly amusing that he thinks he can.

E-mail postage will line pockets, not
stop spam

E-mail postage will line pockets, not
stop spam 02/10/2004 02:53 PM

IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop
Spammers

IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop
Spammers 03/22/2005 03:39 PM

Bill Gates Trying To Reinvent The Wheel
To Stop Spam

Bill Gates Trying To Reinvent The Wheel
To Stop Spam 01/23/2004 11:00 PM
Now that he's no longer running the business side of Microsoft, Bill Gates has apparently turned his attention to spam. That's right, in his spare time, he's been messing around with a variety of ways to solve the spam problem, though, it sounds like all of his ideas are already being tried elsewhere. I guess that's not all that surprising considering Microsoft's history. What will be more interesting is whether or not he can get any of these methods to really work. The first is using basic sender authentication via a challenge-response solution. His second idea is basically greylisting (making servers slow down emails from unknown senders to make it more difficult/expensive for spammers to send out so many messages), which seems to be getting some more attention these days. His final idea, though, which he seems to have the most faith in, is a money-based plan to charge unknown senders to email you. The idea is that you would set a price for unknown people to email you - but you have the option of waiving that fee if it turns out you really wanted to hear from someone. I've heard of people talking about similar plans, but have never heard of it being implemented.

Cisco's P-Cube aims to stop spam at
source

Cisco's P-Cube aims to stop spam at
source 09/20/2004 12:54 PM
The start-up, soon to be acquired by Cisco, adds feature to help broadband service providers fight "zombie" attacks.

When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It's
Time to Bring In the Detectives

When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It's
Time to Bring In the Detectives 05/31/2004 02:19 AM
The fight against spam has turned from software engineers who try to identify and block spam to private investigators, prosecutors and law enforcement agents.

SSH Port Forwarding

SSH Port Forwarding 01/05/2005 09:02 PM

An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding

An AppleScript to automate SSH -X
forwarding 04/21/2004 11:29 AM
I'm running a Linux server in my home network that I connect to several times during the day. Sometimes I connect just to look at logs, and other times to run X programs, forwarding the display to my G5 using the ssh -x opt...

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.

Ah, welcome back Forwarding Address.
Sorry I've be ...

Ah, welcome back Forwarding Address.
Sorry I've be ... 11/19/2003 08:07 PM

Ah, welcome back Forwarding Address. Sorry I've been away so long.

So, about Jenson's Cocoa license issue. It's not perfectly clear to me, but there's no license on Cocoa per se other than any Cocoa specific agreement you might assent to when agreeing to the Apple Developer Tools license (and there or may not be anything Cocoa-related in there, I haven't checked lately). Broadly, Apple can't revoke your right to use or link to Cocoa in your applications unless you violate some agreement. If the Developer Tools license agreement says nothing about your specific use of the tools and/or Cocoa, then you can't be held liable for doing something you didn't know and agree to knowing was not allowed.

Of course, IANAL, so I'm chasing this up, but I do work with a lot of intellectual property lawyers, and this is the general interpretation I get. Note that this is entirely different from agreeing to a license and then to have the licensor find you to be violating it, as was the case with Apple's iTunes SDK and iCommune a while back.

4:29 PM | Dan Moniz

Tracking E-A-Friend Email Forwarding

Tracking E-A-Friend Email Forwarding 01/14/2003 03:16 AM
"...40% of the people who opened the email passed it on to a friend. How can that be measured?"

Bad Commercials Trigger DVR Fast
Forwarding

Bad Commercials Trigger DVR Fast
Forwarding 04/05/2005 02:15 PM
While the story linked here is mostly about yet another overhyped prediction saying that TiVo-like DVR devices are "a threat to commercial advertising," there are two interesting points that seem obvious -- but haven't gotten much attention in these debates. The first is that, while everyone figures out how to fast forward through commercials, some people apparently forget until a bad commercial comes on. In other words, they're fine watching a commercial that seems interesting, amusing or relevant -- but when the bad commercials come on, they realize they are wasting their time. The second point is that users of DVR's, while fast forwarding through commercials do tend to be paying close attention to what's on the TV, looking for "heavily branded screenshots" that indicate it's time to stop fast-forwarding. While this idea has been taken and tweaked to lead to TiVo' s popup ads during commercials, it does make you wonder if advertisers will start designing more TiVo-friendly commercials which would be heavily branded, even for people fast forwarding through. It might also mean that some TV shows could try a branded intro shot, with a statement along the lines of "Stop fast forwarding NOW!" which could also be sponsored by various brands -- though, that could annoy non-DVR using watchers.

SSH Users beware: The hazards of X11
forwarding

SSH Users beware: The hazards of X11
forwarding 07/06/2004 06:49 PM

Setting Up Alert Forwarding Across a
Firewall

Setting Up Alert Forwarding Across a
Firewall 05/27/2004 06:26 PM

The Man Behind The Bill Gates Email
Forwarding Hoax

The Man Behind The Bill Gates Email
Forwarding Hoax 06/29/2004 02:15 PM
Over the years, there have been plenty of different variants on the chain letter urban legend saying that Bill Gates will give you cash for forwarding on the email. A reporter at Wired Magazine began to wonder just how these hoax emails got started. While most of the article goes through how people get suckered into passing on chain letters all the time (and what their reasoning is), he eventually (towards the end of the article) tracks down the guy who started the very first "Bill Gates will give you money for forwarding this email" email. The guy started it as a joke, and never ever expected it to get as far as it did. When it first took off at a ridiculous rate he got scared that he would get in trouble for fraud -- but he's been mostly erased by history. Most of the emails were quickly modified to remove his name (which brings up completely different questions...). When asked why he didn't want to claim "credit" for one of the longest-living, constantly mutating hoaxes, he responds with what the author calls "one of the greatest social critiques of our age": "I didn't really think of that. It's just a hoax. And if I admitted to it, why would anyone believe me?"

Parents LOVE this- New eBlaster 5.0 with
INSTANT Chat/IM Forwarding

Parents LOVE this- New eBlaster 5.0 with
INSTANT Chat/IM Forwarding 06/09/2004 02:43 AM
Here are a few of the NEW features your readers will love in new eBlaster 5.0:In addition to copying you immediately on emails sent and received on the computer on which it is installed, the all-new eBlaster 5.0 now provides Express Delivery of Chat Conversations and Instant Messages. Within minutes of a chat or IM being completed, eBlaster sends you a complete transcript via email. Add the ability to "pick and choose" emails you want to instantly forward -- as well as expanded recording capabilities including potentially costly and legally sensitive peer-to-peer file sharing – PLUS new security that allows each report to be encrypted and you have eBlaster 5.0: the most powerful, dependable, full-featured remote monitoring product available. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

First Online Prepaid Call Forwarding
Service Launched

First Online Prepaid Call Forwarding
Service Launched 04/15/2005 04:55 AM
Bonuscall, a prepaid telephone company has released its call forwarding service, PinoyNumber to meet the necessity of constant communication at the lowest rates. PinoyNumber is the first and only prepaid call forwarding service in the market today. It aims to provide quality and affordable communication service to Filipinos all over the world, who want to keep in touch with their love ones and business associates in the Philippines using the traditional telephony network. [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

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.

L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com)

L.A., Houston top list of worst
stop-go-stop-go traffic (USATODAY.com) 02/19/2004 08:10 AM
USATODAY.com - Traffic bottlenecks across the nation have increased by 40% since 1999, a new report shows. Despite that, delays are being reduced at some of the nation's most infamous chokepoints such as Albuquerque's "Big I" and Chicago's "Hillside Strangler."

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users

Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
Ads D Squared Solutions has agreed to
stop smothering computer users 07/30/2004 07:13 PM
AVN Online Jul 30 2004 10:51PM GMT

Radical Software makes inroads into
freight forwarding, clearing industry

Radical Software makes inroads into
freight forwarding, clearing industry 07/17/2004 01:39 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 17 2004 5:17AM GMT

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.

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You 09/12/2004 11:33 PM
Armed with advanced server-side technologies like ASP.NET and powerful database servers such as Microsoft® SQL Server™, developers are able to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with incredible ease. But the power of ASP.NET and SQL can easily be used against you by hackers mounting an all-too-common class of attack—the SQL injection attack. The basic idea behind a SQL injection attack is this: you create a Web page that allows the user to enter text into a textbox that will be used to execute a query against a database. A hacker enters a malformed SQL statement into the textbox that changes the nature of the query so that it can be used to break into, alter, or damage the back-end database. How is this possible? Let me illustrate with an example.
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