Tag Archive for 'spam'

6,298 spam emails

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Eric Wallace
on March 13, 2007
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I just emptied my Outlook spam folder with a count of 6,298 emails. That is the number of spam email messages sent to my Teazzers email address between November 27, 2006 and today.

Information Week recently looked at the problems with email today in “Is There Anything That Can Be Done About E-Mail?”

There’s something sinister about E-mail.

First, there’s its sheer quantity. The most recent research I’ve read estimates E-mail volume at almost 200 billion messages a day. That translates into every person on earth receiving more than 30 E-mail messages every day. (That being the case, I’m receiving more than my share.) Those are the kinds of numbers they throw around in Washington when they talk about the deficit or the shortfall in Social Security. I can imagine it as a biblical plague: And the earth was visited by 10 million locusts, 20 billion frogs, and 200 billion E-mails.

Wait, I forgot about spam, which represents a conservative 70% of that number. Spam I picture as the robot armies sent by the alien invaders, constantly reproducing, relentlessly advancing. And when I see the E-mails promoting Viagra, stock tips, and porn still getting through to my in-box, I realize my brave little corporate spam filter is fighting a valiant but losing battle.

What are your thoughts about email and the spam that sucks the life out of us all?

Spam, Spam Everywhere

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Eric Wallace
on November 18, 2003
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Eveyone is talking spam, the scourge of the net.

Blog Spam

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Eric Wallace
on October 27, 2003
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Today, I began my assault on blog spam. I started with simple changes as suggested by Yoz Grahame.

Jay Allen’s wonderful MT-Blacklist 1.5 is the new sheriff in town.

Spam Cloaking Device Made

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Eric Wallace
on October 9, 2003
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Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

According to Tubul, his group controls 450,000 “Trojaned” systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers’ websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said.

Oh, there’s some good news. Thanks Microsoft for your secure OS.

Blog Spammer

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Eric Wallace
on September 1, 2003
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This weblog has been the victim of comment spam by bushlee@yahoo.com in recent days. Bushlee has been getting around it seems. All references to “male” enlargement and other crap has been removed. The IP address has been banned as well.