redtape.msnbc.com — Just last December, the Federal Trade Commission published an optimistic state-of-spam report, citing research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year. it now appears spammers had simply gone back to the drawing board. There's more spam now than ever before.
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canoebuilderJan 20, 2007
The hawaiians are happy!pa ta cha<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot</a><a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi</a>
Closed AccountJan 20, 2007
What spammers don't seem to understand is that slinging poop at me won't make me reach for my credit card and buy their products. If the only thing they could think of to get my attention was to throw sweet s**t at me by the shovel, they need to get back to the drawing board again.
danlucasJan 20, 2007
Dugg the article because it's the first time I've seen an explanation of why spam actually works. It only explains the stock spam though. I still wonder if people are really buying the bad drugs and following the porn.
einsteindesignJan 20, 2007
Forgot to mention...the spam was sandboxed in a webmail junk folder. Not deleted, but also not downloaded to their POP inbox. So the net effect of greylisting and a *modest* spam filter was an 85% reduction in spam to the user's inbox with a 0.08% false positive rate. And specific to greylisting, the server rejects at SMTP -- and saves subsequent processing on -- 2500 messages daily.AOL and Yahoo both use greylisting, although Yahoo's implementation can be a pain in the ass.
doomcomplexJan 20, 2007
SPAM! Now with 50% more VENGEANCE!
solarpoweredJan 20, 2007
"Make it a criminal offense"Um, where?Spambots: UntraceableForeign countries: Untouchable
ariastarJan 21, 2007
@ Aardvark1878:An estimated 3-7% of people buy the crap in those e-mails. So it's VERY profitable.
ariastarJan 21, 2007
@ zephc:Try Matador. Better than Barracuda. And no, my company's name is not something that starts with an M either.