I’d like to talk about the other side of the email equation – what happens for legitimate senders, whose email is blocked as spam because an ISP decides that certain words in their email are not ok.

Verizon was blocking email to Verizon customers and bouncing email from ISPs the world over, as millions of Verizon email customers and those sending email to them were affected over the weekend and beyond when Verizon’s anti-spam spam blocking technology went astray.

Free Speech Coalition sues Utah over Child Protection Email Address Registry

Microsoft’s legal team has successfully tracked a zombie network to its seeders and spam sources, and is now suing them to the wall.

A splog is a garbage website put up for the sole purpose of either displaying ads or linking to another target site to give that target site more inbound links. In that way splogs serve to artificially inflate the page rank of the target site.

Talk about people doing stupid things! How stupid do you have to be to make a death threat against an officer who is investigating you? Spammer stupid!

A form spam blocker has been developed by a service offering secure, hijack-proof web forms. It’s guaranteed, it’s cheap, and it’s secure! What more could you ask for?

SpamAssassin has released version 3.1.0 of their fine spam filter product, and it includes support for the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy’s wonderful Email Senders Accreditation Program! [Website maintenance provided by Usestrict and we love them!] This means that SpamAssassin will check to see whether a sender is…

An update for Outlook 2003’s junk email filter promises to make the junk email filter even more effective. And it’s free!

Spam blockers have come a long way. The right spam blocker, coupled with a few tricks of the trade, can help you to tame your inbox.

Overwhelmed by the onslaught of garbage which is clogging your inbox? Embarrassed by the smut and insulted by the scams? Feeling violated by the fact that spammers manage to shove their junk in your private inbox no matter what you do? Frustrated as h*ll and don’t want to take it…

As I believe I’ve made abundantly clear before, I’m not big fan of Blue Security’s Blue Frog. Just like the Lycos ‘Make Love not Spam’ DDOSing screensaver, and the bandwidth-stealing Mugu Marauder, Blog Frog is founded on the concept that DDOSing is ok if you’re doing it to someone you…

King of Spam (make that former King of Spam) Scott Richter has closed a chapter in his book of spam kingness, and has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft for a cool $7million. Which of course leads one to wonder just how much he actually made while seated on his spamming throne.

SpamButcher has just published a series on how to kill network spam zombies. As readers know, the Federal Trade Commission recently issued an open plea to ISPs to get rid of the spam zombies on their networks. And even though a mock trial of IT professionals found that ISPs should…

Even the very best spam filters need some training, and even the very best spam filters are only as good as their training. This is true for the spam filtering capabilities built into your email program as well as any add-on spam filters.