Targeting Spam: April 2006 Archives

Targeting Spam > April 30, 2006

Caveats of doing a mass e-mail

[Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog] The problem is that -- depending on the ISP -- it only takes one user falsely reporting the e-mail as spam to get you on that ISP's blacklist. Be prepared to spend a reasonable amount of time getting yourself de-blacklisted from various places.

Now THIS Is A Hotel

[The Betamax Guillotine] ...or should I say I HAVE EVERY EXTREME CONFIDENCE THAT THERE IS A SINCERE MARKETING MEETING DOWN THE HALL.

Posted at 04:09 AM

April 30, 2006

Caveats of doing a mass e-mail

Posted at 04:10 AM

Now THIS Is A Hotel

[The Betamax Guillotine] ...or should I say I HAVE EVERY EXTREME CONFIDENCE THAT THERE IS A SINCERE MARKETING MEETING DOWN THE HALL.

Posted at 04:09 AM

April 29, 2006

Attack of the spammers?

[Navdeep is Geeking it up 24/7] I posted an entry earlier talking about how much I hate ”˜comment spam’. Well; it looks like I pissed off some of these spammers. Look at my apache web...

Posted at 04:12 AM

Wordpress Update

[Axodys] I’d forgotten that I still had an old defunct Movable Type installation sitting on my server so I cleaned that out too. Now I need to go investigate the new widget plugin because it looks pretty interesting.

Posted at 04:10 AM

April 28, 2006

"Innocent" Trackback Spam Can Knock Your Page Views

[Zoli's Blog :: Main Page] I though I’d share this: recently I’ve seen some seemingly pointless trackback spam that appeared to have come from the main sites of Yahoo, MSN...

Posted at 04:12 AM

Over 100 Pieces of Trackback Spam.

[Jon Watson's Tales from the Motherboard - Blogger. Podcaster. Internet Jedi.] Over 100 Pieces of Trackback Spam. By Jon at Thu, 2006-04-27 16:34 | Spam | Tales from the Motherboard Yes, I have received about 1 piece of trackback spam every minute for the last several hours. I know because my cell phone beeps when it gets an email message. Seriously - there is over 100 pieces of trackback spam on this blog. Well, until I dumped the trackback table. Needless to say I've disabled the trackback module. I like Drupal a lot, but there are some areas in which it's very obvious that it didn't start life as blogware. Comment and Trackback control is one of those areas. Posting into the future is another. I don't see this being addressed anytime soon. So if you want to trackback me - tough. The spammers have ruined it for us all. Bastards. trackback-spam spam

Posted at 04:10 AM

April 27, 2006

Google Hosted E-mail (beta) Review

[Vitriolic Humor] Setup was very easy, some changes are required to your DNS MX records (remember your password for your account with your registrar?) for your domain to point e-mail to Google's servers. Once this has been completed (and propagated) you can log into the management interface, setup e-mail accounts, e-mail lists (think aliases) and make some minor changes to the interface (choose a background color, include your logo.) Once you've created the accounts everything is ready to go, it works just like Gmail.

Posted at 04:14 AM

Clever, google

[Random Neural Misfirings] Here's what so interesting: in the synopsis, that “contact” link is converted to “adamrice at this domain name,” which comprehensible to a human, but opaque to a bot (I think). What this means that A) Google's bot is parsing javascript, B) Google is comparing the address to the domain where it appears, and making substitutions as appropriate, and C) somewhere in the very clever depths of Google, somebody decided it was more useful to show the linked text (that is, my e-mail address, with the above-noted changes) than the linking text (that is, “contact”).

Posted at 04:10 AM

April 26, 2006

Meet Ferris Research at Infosecurity Europe 2006

[Ferris Research Weblog] If you're going to the Infosec conference in London and would like to meet Ferris Research, do get in touch. Richi Jennings will be there Thursday, April 27.

Posted at 04:14 AM

Spammers Slam Small Business

[Kill Spam Now] According to the Miami Herald, spammers are zeroing in on small businesses for the simple reason that small businesses generally have less sophisticated anti-spam technology at play. The result, of course, is reduced productivity.

Posted at 04:11 AM

April 25, 2006

Bad Behavior Forward Observation

[Lunacy Unleashed] I’ve said before that the time would probably come when I would ask for brave volunteers to help run test code in order to help me build the next generation of Bad Behavior. One of those times has just arrived.

Posted at 04:10 AM

BLOGSPAM AFFILIATES: cashwebsearch.com / peakclick.com / find.fm

[push-back] Spamming through what may be affiliates using free hosting domains, but ultimately being paid by cashwebsearch.com / peakclick.com, I have several...

Posted at 04:09 AM

April 24, 2006

The ethics and practices of using nofollow on your site

[theladderproject] I was reading one of my favorite blogs ProBlogger (one of the best resources for learning how to make money via blogs) and following up on some comments when I noticed my Mozilla was flashing some of his links red. Now I have this code in my firefox chrome/userContent.css file.

Posted at 04:10 AM

Google Continues to Shun Blogspot Users

[Blog Flak - Blog Resources] While Blogger Buzz sings the praises heaped on it from a recent PC World article, Google still seems to be using the “no follow” protocol to stop their own search engine spiders from indexing Blogspot addresses. This is totally unfair to the majority of blogs hosted on Blogspot.

Posted at 04:08 AM

April 23, 2006

Weekend Mood

[MacLife: The best apple mac computer hardware and software posts from around the web] Given that I, too, have moved away from the broad issues in the mobile industry (as much due to my Disclaimer as to my being rather too immersed in them to be completely impartial) and that there has been very little incentive in dissecting every little nuance of a rapidly changing market when every factoid is re-posted, re-linked and quoted to death, I'm not really surprised.

Read related posts for „Weekend Mood“.

Posted at 04:27 AM

Comment Section

[Based On A True Story] I am a happy person. I used to get between 100-300 spam comments/trackbacks on my website a day, and then at 3am last night I got absolutely sick of them and figured out how to implement a hack called Captcha into my blog which makes anyone leaving comments have to write down numbers they see (like blogger). Today is my first day probably since I started blogging that I haven't had one spam attack. Tags Technorati : Captcha • Spam...

Posted at 04:25 AM

April 22, 2006

Spam a lot less

[The Brian Alvey Weblog] Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you.

Posted at 04:41 PM

Spam Karma Now Installed

[ - Techno-Squirrels] If you get emails from Spam Karma asking your to verify you’re a living being this is a normal function of the plugin and it shouldn’t ask you to do it again once you’ve done it the first time (For the most part it won’t ever do this unless you’re good at writing amazingly spam-like comments).

Posted at 04:39 PM

A solution for Robert Scoble?

[ Tom Raftery’s I.T. views] Robert, if someone is posting troll comments under multiple names coming from the same ip address - enter that ip address into your WordPress Options -> Discussion -> Comment Moderation field and then comments from that ip will be moderated - all others will get through.

Posted at 04:36 PM

Targeting Spam > April 30, 2006

Caveats of doing a mass e-mail

Now THIS Is A Hotel

April 30, 2006

Caveats of doing a mass e-mail

Now THIS Is A Hotel

April 29, 2006

Attack of the spammers?

Wordpress Update

April 28, 2006

"Innocent" Trackback Spam Can Knock Your Page Views

Over 100 Pieces of Trackback Spam.

April 27, 2006

Google Hosted E-mail (beta) Review

Clever, google

April 26, 2006

Meet Ferris Research at Infosecurity Europe 2006

Spammers Slam Small Business

April 25, 2006

Bad Behavior Forward Observation

BLOGSPAM AFFILIATES: cashwebsearch.com / peakclick.com / find.fm

April 24, 2006

The ethics and practices of using nofollow on your site

Google Continues to Shun Blogspot Users

April 23, 2006

Weekend Mood

Comment Section

April 22, 2006

Spam a lot less

Spam Karma Now Installed

A solution for Robert Scoble?

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