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Found this to be very interesting and actually I did notice a drop in spam today.

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Might want to watch out for this one.

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Interesting:
The Securities and
Exchange Commission this morning suspended trading in the securities of
35 companies that have been the subject of recent and repeated spam
email campaigns (see examples).
The trading suspensions – the most ever aimed at spammed companies -
were ordered because of questions regarding the adequacy and accuracy
of information about the companies.

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Excellent post by Justin on why SAV isn't that useful in fighting spam:

Some view this as a useful anti-spam technique. In my opinion, it’s not.
Spam/anti-spam is an adversarial “game”. Whenever you’re considering anti-spam
techniques, it’s important to bear in mind game theory, and the possible
countermeasures that spammers will respond with. Before SAV became prevalent,
spam was often [...]

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I've been slowly moving my various domain's email management to Google Apps For Your Domain. After a bit of success I let Brent know and he is happily also using Google Apps Gmail thingy.
One thing I noticed right away since I let things run outside of our SimpleFilter corporate service is that a ton of [...]

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From Techdirt:
You would think that it wouldn't be that hard to track down
phishing scammers. While they do try to hide themselves, in the end,
there should be some sort of money trail leading back to them. However,
for all the talk of trying to track these guys down, it seemed like no
one ever got anywhere. There was [...]

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It looks as though our SimpleFilter service has come under attack today. We seem to be weathering the storm and delivering email as we normally do.
Noticed that a majority of the attack seems to be coming from an IP owned by Affinity Internet. Considering they are an online marketing service company I wouldn't doubt if [...]

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I'm not sure what to think of this yet.

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Good thing I didn't hold my breath as I pointed out here!!
From TechDirt:

Early last year, Bill Gates announced that he was concentrating on the spam problem and had a few ideas on how to stop the problem. Of course, all of those ideas sounded like ideas that others were already trying — and there was [...]

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An Ipsos-Reid survey concluded that “the average weekly number of spam e-mail messages dropped from 68 per cent in 2003 to 49 per cent last year”.
I'd have to dissagree because we do not see that sort of pattern whatsoever at SimpleFilter.
Here is an article and a post on the Ipsos-Reid survey.
 

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