Targeting Spam > Comment Spam on the rise

[Miles’ Blog - Thoughts and errata from Miles Burke.] As with email spamming and Usenet spamming in the nineties, blog comment spamming is on the rise as more people get easier access to the tools, and more lists of blogs, etc are made available. I haven’t seen statistical evidence, but I would assume the effectiveness of the actual spam, and the spams actually getting through to recipients or blog comment areas are in a reverse curve to these broadcast statistics, as more and more software tools for each style and type of spam get released.

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http://blog.azazil.net  azazil.net: The final piece fell into place when I found out about Mail Submission Protocol, and decided to see which of my mail providers supported it by simply turning off SSL and changing my outgoing mail port from 25 to 547 (leaving username and password the same where authentication was required), to see whether I could then get outgoing email past the hotel firewalls. It turns out that in every case, I could. (via Cosmos)

http://www.adammoro.com/blog  Adam Moro :: Blog: While I think The Boulder Pledge is great in that it provides something concrete to remember when presented something interesting in a spam mail, I don’t think spammers will stop until technology or something else provides a way to completely eliminate the possibility of spamming. Bill Weinman, a large supporter of The Boulder Pledge is currently developing a new protocol for email that could largely decrease the amount of spam mail you receive which would obviously be a big step. (via Cosmos)

www.thesuperstar.org: SPAM prevention Email Spam from generic forms of viagra to the latest get rich quick Nigerian prince scam have plagued the internet for some time now. But, many worms SPAM copies of itself to people in email attachments. (via Cosmos)

http://digitalhistory.uwo.ca/dhh  Digital History Hacks: are increasingly turning to the world wide web as a model of what people actually say (”Corpus colossal,” 20 Jan 2005). There are complications, to be sure, many of them caused by the never-ending war on spam. (via Cosmos)

http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com  Digital History Hacks: Used in conjunction with the Google Search API, in other words, a metric like tf-idf can automatically find the set of keywords which will return a given document. We can then find similar documents by relaxing the search a little bit and seeing what else turns up. (via Cosmos)

Half The Politics: While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, and mobile phone messaging spam.” I logged into one of my favorite Iowa bloggers and found prominately displayed links that direct to web search engine spam pages. I hope Brian reads this and is aware that (via Cosmos)

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