February 14, 2005

Ann Elisabeth - Norwegian spam huntress

Just thought I would let you know about a cool blog (if you are a sysadmin or webhead, such as myself) Ann Elisabeth's blog contains a lot of information about various referrer, trackback and comment spammers. She has gotten really...

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Posted by jarle at 11:56 AM | Comments (1)
January 31, 2005

The Register interviews a link spammer

If you own a blog, you have probably experienced it: Spammers who fill your comment sections with ads for Viagra, porn and gambling. Its the new nuisance of the web: Link spammers. The Register has gotten a hold of one...

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Posted by jarle at 11:57 PM
January 26, 2005

Nigerian Scam as comment spam

Nigeria scammers using comment spamming to fish for fools is certanly a new and "novel" approach. Hopefully anyone reading this post will understand exactly what kind of a scam this is.

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January 21, 2005

Fighting comment spam, linking without google juice and other reasons to use the new href attribute

Fighting blog spam, allowing linking to people you don't like without giving them Googlejuice. The new link attribute has many applications. Most like it, but some think its a bad idea.

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Posted by jarle at 01:23 AM
June 10, 2003

A few good tips on how to battle spam with Eudora

Install Spamnix, this anti-spam tool comes as a free trial and doesn't cost much to buyMake sure that images in spam e-mails are never shown, most of them are linked with information about who you are - if you open...

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Spamnix for Eudora evolving

Eudora has always been my favorite mail application. It (almost) supports standard mailbox format (one mailbox = one file) so its easy to port mail from one platform to another, if configured right its virtually bulletproof against viruses, and it...

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Posted by jarle at 11:17 PM
June 06, 2003

Spam convention

Good to see the spammers are taking time off from making all our lives miserable to actually have a convention. The DM Days New York Conference and Expo was held on the 2nd to the 4th of June, and gathered...

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June 05, 2003

Spam fighting tools: Eudora 6.0 Beta

I have been following anti-spam tools for a while, and in the latest year there has been a boom of services and programs to fight spam - for reasons obvious to anyone with an e-mail account. But what has become...

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Posted by jarle at 07:15 PM
April 15, 2003

Automated Denial-of-Service Attack Using the U.S. Post Office

Interesting way of fighting spam, spans real world "Denial-of-postal-Service-attack" (From Crypto-Gram Newsletter) In December 2002, the notorious "spam king" Alan Ralsky gave an interview. Aside from his usual comments that antagonized spam-hating e-mail users, he mentioned his new home in...

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June 25, 2002

Funny mail exchange

This is a funny e-mail exchage. Or more like a funny response to a not so interesting spam-mail from Amazon.com: [!CrackMonkey!] [evan@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us: [pigdog] Re: Important test at Amazon.com] Well worth a read! [Via Doc Searls]...

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Posted by jarle at 02:25 AM
April 10, 2002

Going after spam

BBC writes about Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco that is going after one of the big spam companies. The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo, is one of the first outfits in the United...

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Posted by jarle at 02:10 AM
March 21, 2002

Not a good day..

Google bowing for scientologiest, and orbz having to shut down because of idiots..

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Posted by jarle at 11:51 PM
February 20, 2002

To be global or to be spammed?

Should we block asian isps, because of all the spam originating from there?

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Posted by jarle at 02:59 AM