Spam Blocking Information

Fight Spam and Fortify Your Web Site with RSS


RSS is the answer to the Spam epidemic of the past. Spam, any mass distribution of material across the Internet, can cause systems to back up and crash with unwanted and unsolicited material. Some of this material may be offensive to the people who visit your website and drive away potential viewers or customers.

SPAM: A Nutrious Food or a Waste of Time?


Unless the filters on your computer are really good, you?re getting at least an occasional SPAM message in your email Inbox. For most of us, we spend more time sorting through and deleting the SPAM than we care to. In fact, my husband told me tonight that of 30 messages he receives each day on our home computer 29 of them are SPAM.

What SPAM Means: Stupid People Annoying Me


English, German, Italian - It's All SPAM To Me

Im Guilty Until Proven Innocent


No doubt about it.

How Spammers Fool Bayesian Filters - And How to Stop Them


Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don?t work anymore.

Evict the Spammers from Your Inbox


Block Spam and Other Email Threats From Entering Your Gateway Spam, commonly defined as unsolicited commercial email, is a powerful advertising channel for many products and services. As a result, spamming has become a profitable business, driven by the low cost of sending email compared to other direct marketing techniques. The high return on investment for spammers has resulted in an overwhelming volume of unwanted messages in personal and business email boxes. Consider this: Conducting a direct mail campaign costs an average of $1.39 per person, meaning that a response rate of 1 in 14 is necessary just to break even on a product with a $20 gross profit. Selling the same item via unsolicited spam email costs only $0.0004 per person, meaning that a response rate of 1 in 50,000 gets the seller back to break-even; anything above that is gravy. With profit margins like these, it?s easy to see why spammers will try anything to get past anti spam technology to deliver their messages to your inbox.

BUSTED: Anti Spam Forces Bankrupt Super-Spammer Scott Richter


Microsoft scores one for the good guys

Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years


Will other spammers take heed? Don?t count on it.

The Anti Spam Challenge ? Minimizing False Positives


Email is the quintessential business communication tool, so when it doesn?t work like it?s supposed to, business suffers. Anti spam software is designed to protect your inbox from unwanted messages, but unless your system is properly trained even the best software misses the mark and flags legitimate messages as spam. These messages are referred to as ?false positives.?

How Spammers Fool Whitelists - And How to Stop Them


Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don?t work anymore.

How Spammers Fool Spam Blacklists - And How to Stop Them


Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don?t work anymore.

How Spammers Fool Rule-based and Signature-Based Spam Filters


Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. The increasing sophistication of spam tools coupled with the increasing number of spammers in the wild has created a hyper-evolution in the variety and volume of spam. The old ways of blocking the bad guys just don?t work anymore.

I Must Be The Luckiest Person Alive! Spam


I must be the luckiest person alive! My inbox is just crammed with good news, great advice, and millions in accounts just needing the ok from me. Right now, I've two million euros just waiting to be claimed. Some lotteries don't even need participation to return a winner, it seems.

Spam - How to Report it


I?m sure you find spam just as frustrating and annoying as I do. So I?ve done some investigation in how to report it to get these people hopefully in a bit of strife! And put spam to an end or at least lessen it ;-)

How You Can Avoid The New Dangers Of Spam


Until recently, spam has been an annoyance, a definite load on your email system and network, a waste of productive time and money, but we are about to find that the cost could get much higher.

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