Category: Spam Blockers
How to Go from Spamming to Prison in 6 Short Months
For all of you naysayers who insist that the Federal anti-spam law should be called the “YOU-CAN-SPAM” act instead of the CAN-SPAM act, and who say that it will never be a useful tool, Florida spammer Peter Moshou just might beg to differ. In what has to be one of…
New July 1st Child Email Address Registry Laws a Big Surprise Affecting All Emailers
From Aunty’s friends over at the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy: NEW JULY 1st CHILD EMAIL ADDRESS REGISTRY LAWS A BIG SURPRISE AFFECTING ALL EMAILERS, WARNS INSTITUTE FOR SPAM AND INTERNET PUBLIC POLICY “Jail Time, Large Penalties, and Private Actions Facing All Commercial Emailers Who Fail to Comply,”…
Survey Says! Best ISP Is…
PC World has just released a survey they took of more than 6,000 Internet users, in order to determine who the best ISP was. And the answers may surprise you. The 6,000 survey participants, all PC World subscribers, were asked to rate their ISPs on a scale of 1 to…
Hotmail Users: Wondering Where Your Email Has Gone? Look in Your Junkfolder – Hotmail Requiring Sender ID
Microsoft has just announced that they are now requiring that email sent to Hotmail accounts must use Microsoft Sender I.D. or the email will be marked with a big yellow box and put in the junk folder or maybe even deleted. That big yellow box across the top of the…
Leading E-Mail Organizations to Speak at Email Authentication Implementation Summit 2005
This should be an interesting gathering. Now, if they can only get it together to actually accomplish something, unlike so many of the industry get-togethers, where there’s a lot of talk, but little outcome: Industry Recognizes the Urgency of E-Mail Authentication and Issues Call to Action to Help Protect Customers…
A Really Stupid Idea – Encrypt Your Email to Look Like Spam with Spam Mimic
In the world of really dumb ideas, this one is, well…really dumb. Actually the underlying concept is not dumb, but the execution surely is. Spam Mimic is a new site which allows you to encrypt your email into an unreadable code so that it looks like spam. The recipient on…
Yahoo and Cisco Join Forces and Products to Develop DKIM (Domain Keys + Identified Internet Mail)
Internet web portal and ISP Yahoo, and router and software giant Cisco, have joined forces to jointly produce an anti-spam product based on Yahoo’s Domain Keys and Cisco’s Identified Internet Mail system. Domain Keys, which was announced last year, is Yahoo’s entry into the email authentication space. “Yahoo is receiving…
The Plague of the Zombies – An Open Letter from the FTC to ISPs and Networks
An Open Letter from the Federal Trade Commission to ISPs and Network Professionals: Dear Network professionals: We are writing on behalf of an international group of government agencies to request that your organization join a worldwide effort to prevent spammers from compromising consumers’ computers and using them as “spam zombies.â€?…
Lawyer Misses Court Because of Spam Filter – Give Us Your Stories!
Remember when it used to be that “the dog ate my homework”? That didn’t work very well, did it? Well, now it’s “the spam filter ate my court appearance notice”, and guess what! As it turns out, that works pretty well! Attorney Jeffrey J. Stesiak, of South Bend, Indiana, was due to appear at the court for a status conference on December 8th. A status conference is where the attorneys for both sides appear before the judge or another court officer, and tell them the status of the case – is it likely to settle, are they ready to go to trial, etc.. Only, Jeffrey never showed up at the court on December 8th.
SpamAssassin Wins Top Anti-Spam Product Award
SpamAssassin has handily won as the best anti-spam product in Datamation’s Product of the Year Awards, receiving nearly twice as many votes as the next closest contender.
Will Read Your Spam for Money
Scott “I’m going straight” Richter wants you to know that he has a sense of humour, and so he sent Aunty this story from the Onion to share with you all: Immigrant Laborers Hired to Delete Spam SAN DIEGO—Executives at Gortman Consulting are hiring immigrant day laborers to delete their…
Verizon Sued for Blocking Email from Around the World
Verizon Online is being sued by their subscribers for blocking incoming email from entire countries.
Sonny Outlook for Peachy Anti-Spam Law in Georgia
Georgia’s Internet citizenry got a treat yesterday as Governor Sonny Perdue introduced legislation aimed at making spamming the good citizens of Georgia (or, indeed, by the good citizens of Georgia) a criminal offense. The proposed legislation, known as the “Georgia Slam Spam E-mail Act” (gotta work on those acronyms, Mr….
AOL Offers New Spam and Virus Resistant Software for New Year
America Online (AOL), one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the United States, if not in the universe, is sticking it to spammers again, this time by offering an updated version of its software which is designed to be more spam, spyware, and virus proof than previous versions. AOL…
Inside Source: “Verizon is Blocking Inbound Email from non-U.S. Sites”
Word on the street was that Verizon for some reason known only to them had decided to block all (or at least nearly all) email which was not sent from inside of the good old USA.
