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[Googled.wordpress.com] 3, 2, 1”¦Let The Gmail SPAM Awards Blast Off! « Google Milk: Talking from personal experience, Gmail never generated a “false positive“, in other words Gmail has never marked as SPAM an email that shouldn’t have been. On the other hand, I receive from time to time “false negatives”, meaning that Gmail lets sometimes some SPAM show in my inbox as legitimate emails.
[Jeremy.zawodny.com] PR Spam to Bloggers Continues (by Jeremy Zawodny): Privacy: I do not share or publish the email addressesor IP addresses of anyone posting a comment here without consent.However, I do reserve the right to remove comments that are spammy,off-topic, or otherwise unsuitable based on my commentpolicy. In a few cases, I may leave spammy comments but remove anyURLs they contain.
[Timboucher.com] The Evolution of Spam-Consciousness - Pop Occulture Blog: It will have been analyzing our patterns of interaction, our blog posts, our photos, our search engine queries, our emails, our instant messages to one another, our e-commerce transactions. Surely, within that vast sphere of data, it will have noticed certain topical trends: a seeming obsession with sex, the ridiculous over-the-top attempts to sell products to each other.
[Marginalrevolution.com] Marginal Revolution: Private spam regulation?: To anticipate some more objections: "But that means that AOL would have to pay for massive computing power just to be able to send its users' emails to Google users!" Large players would likely enter into trust relationships, in which each party agrees to levy the factorization fee directly on the sending user's machine and not levy the fee on their cross-server communications. "But that shuts out small players!" Small players sending few unsolicited emails already have the computing power to easily cover the cost.
[Soopa Starr, Around the Way Girl Incarnate - MySpace Blog] Apparently, my feelings are supposed to be hurt... : There's this anonymous (he really is) dude who read my column and got pissed because I called Dan the Automator a prick for stepping on my foot hard and not apologizing (which he is), and because I talked about homosexual rappers. We exchanged about two emails and after the second one, I decided to report him as spam because I feel he's retarded and crazy and that's just not my steez.
[Making News] PR: Caught in the Spam Filter?: It’s only a matter of time before someone accuses the public relations industry of being among the top spammers on the Internet. PR’s volume of blind and unsolicited pitches to the news media via email is out of control and growing, fueled by online services that promise to deliver your press release to thousands of journalists by email, even though such an approach is rarely effective.
[Zero Day Security | InfoWorld] Does your computer have rabies?: Maybe they're trying to bite us, or maybe send out a few spam emails without us knowing about it, maybe even installing a keylogger to capture our private information and send it to nefarious individuals. It's not our little friend's fault, it can't help being bitten, especially with the company it has to keep these days, running around with sometimes unsavory types who may or may not have had their shots.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Spam, Targeting Spam