Archives: Spam
Everyone hates spam. Posts in this category provide information on how it gets to you and how to make it go away.Google taking ads for Spam? See for yourself
Posted June 2, 2005 05:35 PM
I had to look twice when I saw this in the Spam folder of my Google Mail account: A Web site called Recipe Source has taken out text ads on Gmail pitching recipes whose main ingredient is Spam. The original processed meat product from Hormel. No kidding. There's even a...
Spammer, heal thyself!
Posted June 1, 2005 12:09 PM
I just got an e-mail from an organization that calls itself SPAMIS (Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam). The message consisted of an article that was apparently written by Graham Lea of The Register, complaining that Microsoft is abusing some of its mailing lists and sending out unwelcome, unsolicited e-mail. Ironically, the mailing...
Spam of the day
Posted May 27, 2005 12:52 PM
Some anonymous stock tipster using a phony e-mail account wants me to invest in a company whose shares only cost 11ยข each. Such a deal! Oh, wait, there is this disclaimer buried at the end of the e-mail, which ironically entitled "Stellar Stock Report": As with many microcap stocks, todays...
A spammer goes under
Posted March 29, 2005 07:11 PM
This story makes me very, very, very happy. Some people deserve ruination, and Scott Richter is one of them. I remember the efforts I had to go through to filter out his garbage several years ago. Good riddance....
The .info domain is a vast wasteland
Posted March 29, 2005 07:18 AM
If you own a domain name in the .info space, you have associated yourself with a lot of sleaze merchants. As a test, I set my server-side spam filters to divert all mail from any domain that ends in .info to a special folder. I've been keeping an eye on it, and after...
Stupid spammers
Posted January 10, 2005 05:15 PM
Earlier today I was sorting through the Junk Mail folder for a Hotmail alias I rarely use and ran across yet another variation on the Nigerian scam e-mail. This one was pretty sleazy — the sender claimed to be a Christian preacher in Sri Lanka who knew a wealthy man who...
A small victory over spam
Posted January 23, 2003 11:16 AM
Here's some good news. A state judge in New York has brought the hammer down on MonsterHut, Inc., a spammer that reportedly has sent more than 500 million unsolicited commercial emails. Their defense was that all those people "opted in," but they couldn't prove that a single person had actually...