Stuffing the Spammers!

I've collected thousands of email addresses that arrived in spam messages and ended up in my blacklist. If you are in a position to load your site with a few thousand dud email addresses, why not give it a go and Stuff the Spammers. If each of us does something, the cumulative effect will be damaging to the spammers. As a last resort, I decided to make my own small contribution to reducing the spam plague. Unfortunately, the plague of spam isn't going to fade away any time soon, although authorities (at least in Australia) have started taking legal action and imposing hefty penalties for spamming.

Do You Know Whats in Your Trash?

Just as the majority of ISPs now give you the ability to filter e-mail based on level of spamminess or by adding e-mail addresses to your list so they can get through. Otherwise you risk wanted e-mail going out with the trash. Three simple little steps can help ensure the e-mail you do want lands in your inbox. Add their dot com to your list as soon as you sign up. Most legitimate eZines use a double-opt in subscription process that requires you respond or click on a link within an e-mail from them before you get formally added to their list.

Demand for Spam? It exists

Clicking on any embedded links in spam messages helps spammers determine 'live' email accounts, which means more spam. Haven't they heard that spammers use the unsubscribe link solely to identify active email accounts. Blunder 2 -- trying to unsubscribe to spam using the 'unsubscribe' link in the email -- 18% of respondents. In the first quarter of 2005 the Radicati Group expects fraudulent emails to reach 8% of all spam. When individual email addresses or entire domains are found to be active, they are doomed to flood of spam.

The War on Spam: Google Fights Back

Nearly three trillion spam messages are sent each year - 13 times the total snail mail delivered by the U. The average wired American is hit with nearly 2,200 spam messages annually - this after most ISPs have filtered 80-90 percent of the junk messages. Spam accounted for at least one in four email messages a business received in 2002. It is estimated that 80% of search results for any keyword phrases entered into a search engine are considered spam. It's an arms race, Steve Linford, director of the London-based SpamHaus Project, said.

Is Spam Affecting Your Business Email?

Here are the 5 reasons you should consider the implications of spam more carefully. You try to send a more targeted mailing, but due to the spammers all email is being vetted more carefully, and spam is hurting all of our businesses, even responsible marketers like you who wouldn't even think about using it. They send out a million untargeted messages in a few hours, and rely on the fact that even if only 1 or 2 % of the people they sent it to bu. It is because it is so easy and cheap to send email that you as a marketer want to use it,and spammers selling dodgy pills want to exploit it. Governments may be stepping in and passing laws to outlaw spam, but the spammers themselves will move their servers to a safe place with a more tolerant government.

Dont Look Spammy!

Many spam filters track these terms and may inadvertently send your email right to Trash. All small case or all caps gives the impression of being spam (and lack of online savvy/education. Formatting can also trigger spam filters if not done properly. When sending business e-mail, it is critical that you make certain efforts so that your e-mail will not be inadvertently, incorrectly perceived as spam. Several times each day, legitimate e-mail makes its way into my Junk/Trash due to the sender doing or not doing certain things that trigger most spam filters.

Avoiding the Spam Trap: Get Your Message Delivered!

Between ISP spam filters, spam-blocking email servers, spam-killing email software, and email content filtering everywhere in between, the chances are high that your messages just aren't making it past all of these roadblocks. When the new federal law dubbed The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) was passed in December, many were startled and confused by the apparent legalization of spam. Spammers and virus authors are rapidly crippling email. For now, it's up to publishers to sell readers on the RSS concept, and explain how it alleviates the pain of spam. Even though e-mail was once dubbed the killer app of the Internet, some doomsayers are going so far that viruses, spam, and spam filters are joining forces to bring about the death of email.

Spam The Spammer - Will It Work?

The part I have the biggest problem with is they then effectively BECOME A SPAMMER by sending thousands of messages in a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS. If you don't order anything from a spammer and don't even click on his link to open the message, the monetary incentive for spam is removed. Spam will NEVER go away until you attack its real source engine. You then have to send EACH spam message to them for inclusion on their list. Last year, Lycos Europe rolled out a screensaver that conducted DDoS attacks against known spammers.

The Fastest Delete Finger in the Midwest!

I receive hundreds of sp~m messages a day, but always manage to make each and every one disappear forever. I assure you if you follow all these tips you will never receive any sp~m. I know I have been a little ridiculous in making my point, but that just is my point. Do Not use your email for any reason whatsoever. All this hullabaloo about sp~m is ridiculous.

How You Can Avoid The New Dangers Of Spam

Until recently, spam has been an annoyance, a definite load on your email system and network, a waste of productive time and money, but we are about to find that the cost could get much higher. The evolution of spammers into 3 new and very dangerous areas had me scambling to get serious about finding spam blocker software and techniques that are more effective than what I've been using in the past. It's time to get serious about spam blocker software - as a first line of defense. In my trials of over 12 different spam blocker solutions, we found incredible variance in the reliabiltiy, effectiveness leading to our finding that there were only a small handful of serious spam blocker solutions. This raises the issue that spam needs to be blocked, ideally, in both directions - to ensure you are not an unwilling accomplice to a malicious spam campaign.

Spam - Its Whats For Breakfast

Senate passed legislation last week that would increase penalties for spammers on a national level and would start a do-not-spam list. My biggest frustration comes from the pop-up messages I receive when connected to the Internet. Gray Davis recently signed a bill that made a tough stand on spamming with fines from $1,000 per e-mail and up to $1 million per mass-mailing incident. Each state has its own anti-spam laws to protect people from this type of privacy invasion. Although spamming is only one of the many invasions of privacy on my computer and although this new legislation has been too long in coming, I have to admit I'm quite relieved to see help is on the way.

Take Back Control of Your Inbox: Eliminate Annoying and Potentially Harmful E-mails

You can choose your desired level of protection and the type of messages to scan with the Spam Shredder. The Webroot Spam Shredder is a Spam Filtering Software that lets you to remove spam e-mails from the mail server without ever pulling them down into your inbox. The Webroot Spam Shredder is equipped with a smart learning engine, which studies your decisions to keep or delete spam. Are you tired of spam stealing your time, your money, your bandwidth and your hard disc space. Spam is however not only shunned by the users, the Internet Service Providers abhor it as well since it chews up a lot of bandwidth and disc space, and the non-stop sending of e-mails uses a lot of system resources and stresses the e-mail servers.

Lockspam Free 3.0 Released!

Training Lockspam Is Easy Lockspam is easy to teach. By Blocking spam and Unblocking innocent mails, Lockspam will learn your preferences and judge mails in line with your logic. Allowed List > Allowed Keywords > Blocked List > Blocked Keywords > Polesoft Security Pack > heuristic Polesoft Anti-spam Engine. If any attachment matches the pattern files the message is regarded as spam and sent to the Polesoft Antispam folder. To learn more about the differences between Lockspam Free version and Lockspam Pro version, please visit Lockspam Version Comparisons http.

How Spammers Fool Rule-based and Signature-Based Spam Filters

The signature is compared to every email coming in to the network and all matching messages are discarded as spam. The benefit of signature-based filters is that they rarely produce false-positives, or legitimate email incorrectly identified as spam. Because they are backward-looking, they only deal with spam that has already been sent. Once all characters have been assigned a value, the values are totaled, creating the spam's signature. Once a honey pot receives a spam message, the content is examined and given a unique identifier.

How To Stop Spam (Especially If You're Already a Victim)

By using your Safe Email Address, you can avoid seeing messages from these companies come to your personal email address. However, some spammers use special software that looks at the HTML code hidden in the form to steal your email address, so using a form by itself isn't always the safest route. Check to see if your ISP or hosting company has anti- spam technology in place, to catch spam before it even hits your Inbox. If you have a catch- all, then those spamming emails will come to you, even if you don't have a legitimate mailbox of info@mydomain. See how easy it is for spammers to get to you.