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• SpamCop Vigilantism
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Mike Banks Valentine) The following is a note I received from an advertiser after he got a SPAM warning from a Spam Vigilante. Note that his service is a SPAM Filtering Service! Mike, Do you know what this means, and how it happened? Joe ----- Original Message -...
• Good Spam or Bad Spam - What's the Difference?
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Sara Hardy) "Are you good spam or bad spam?" This is the question I find echoing in my head sometimes when I am going through my email, as if it is part of some electronic Wizard of Oz. Have you ever given any thought to the fact that there really is a difference ...
• Spam Not
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Mari Peckham) "Spam not, lest ye be spammed." ~Mari Peckham Just yesterday, I received over 40,000 emails from a person who had harvested a contact email address from one of my websites. The person may or may not have personally secured my email address, but sinc...
• "Where is My Spam"
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Wonder Wyant) Boy, I must be really new to the Internet! Everyone keeps talking about all the canned meat they're getting and I'm hardly getting fed over here. I do get some, but I'm sure not getting fat on it. I receive a couple of hundred or so emails a day so ...
• Spam - Is there Anything
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Dennis Eppestine) Spam - love it or hate it, it's here to stay. We all receive it, some more than others. One way to keep from being too annoyed is to get a free web based email account. There are many free ones available on the Internet. I try to keep one personal emai...
• Not Guilty
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Bob Osgoodby) We receive such a tremendous amount of unsolicited commercial email (spam) in our In-Box every day, we can certainly understand why some people become "Anti-Spam" crusaders. Since the majority is sent with phony return addresses, it is virtually impos...
• Buried Under a Mountain of Spam
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Michael Southon) For years I didn't worry much about spam. But lately it's got out of control. Over half of my email is now spam, and it's growing by the week. Spam is now such a problem that I know people who have had to close down their domain name. This artic...
• Un-Due Process - Part 2
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Elena Fawkner) DUMB HOST OK, now let's turn to the real bad guy in all of this. The webhost who shuts down a website on the grounds of nothing more than the say-so of an unverified spam complaint. In my case, it's DumbHost but I know there are many other webhosts ...
• "Shortcuts To Control Terroristic Email!"
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by A.T.Rendon) Everyone agrees that SPAM is a growing problem on the Internet. And with estimates that we will soon have over 1 billion people worldwide surfing the net, this problem will only continue to grow worse. The worst part of this situation is that spamme...
• Un-Due Process - Part 1
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 04:33:52 PM, by Elena Fawkner) "Automatic complaints are sent when a filter whose action is set to Kill after complaining is triggered. For each filter, you can configure who the complaint should be sent to. ... The message body is also scanned for e-mail and website addresses. If a...

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