arstechnica.com — "Spam volumes are growing faster than expected due to the success of image-based spam in bypassing antispam filters and of email sender identity spoofing in getting higher response rates," said Mark Levitt, the VP in charge of IDC's Collaborative Computing and Enterprise Workplace research. "Instant messaging, joined by free and low-cost VoIP....
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47f0Apr 11, 2007
The proliferation of spam is due almost entirely to compromised bot-nets of Windows machines. This is not getting better, but is seldom mentioned as a primary cause of the success of spam distribution by the tech-clueless media.It's trivial to block a spammer's IP, or IP-block, but when the bot-nets are spread across thousands of IPs, there's very little address-based blocking that can be done.
kratistoApr 11, 2007
Eh... Already true? Besides, you only get spam if you set your stuff up stupidly. If you need to register for a site that you suspect will spam your inbox, and all you need is that registry link, send it to some other, arbitrary email address. You can handle messages that you actually need to read easily with your real email and keep the junk stowed away on yahoo's servers.
haggieApr 11, 2007
zero spam received this year. thanks google!
bonus45Apr 11, 2007
News flash !!! Water is wet, film at 11.
angusmApr 11, 2007
There are services such as Sneakemail that will do this for you. (Google for 'disposable email addresses' for more).Or if you have a domain of your own and a certain amount of control over the mail system, you can do what I did and build your own solution based on something like the Perl Mail::Audit module (Mail::Audit isn't required, but it makes implementing something like this trivial).
encognitoApr 12, 2007
Spam e-mail blocking:1. Create a Spam e-mail address (I use Hotmail)2. Give this address to likely spammers (online merchants, warranty cards, online sites that might sell your address)3. Create your primary e-mail address (I use Gmail)4. Give this address to reputable organizations and people5. Forward Gmail e-mail to Thunderbird client utilizing Gmail for further Spam filtering and backup6. Use Thunderbird’s junk filter if necessary (I rarely use it)7. Mentally chuckle at people who spend money to block SpamJunk snail mail blocking:1. Obtain a PO Box2. Give this address to reputable organizations and people3. Conveniently dump residential address junk mail into nearest recycling bin without looking through it for your important mail.
threedee912Apr 12, 2007
Er... PGP?
Closed AccountApr 12, 2007
indeed. you have to check on xpanity to see the big news<a class="user" href="http://www.xpanity.com">http://www.xpanity.com</a>
smek2Apr 12, 2007
Spammers are the Scum of the Earth. Sometimes i feel like i could shoot a spammer in his big, fat, bloated head, right in front of his family and walk away with clean consciousness. Spammers represent everything which is wrong with humans. Unfathomable greed, no scruple or morale, no respect for any laws whatsoever. Face it, spammers are criminals. They are the abnormal excrescence of capitalism.They need to be shot and? ah, i already went with the whole "shoot them in the head" thing. Well...
bobbknightApr 12, 2007
This is news?