TechnoMagicians Blog

I've been using GMail for the last few months for all my mailing lists. I find it incredible with its auto-threading of subjects which makes it useful with mailing lists. I used to have all my mailing lists come in as feeds into Bloglines but not since I discovered GMail. However, today I noticed that […]

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Looks like the CRTC in Canada may finally do something about this or at least they are having a hearing about this coming up. Its about bloody time. Of course, Bell Canada could take some measures to thwart this pretty easily. They could have an option allowing me to set that I do not want […]

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Maybe I'm just thick but I don't see how UseBestMail helps anyone in the fight against spam. All it does is prevent myself from sending spam from my own email client. Unless of course everyone on the planet is using UseBestMail and all SMTP servers are validating stamps which just isn't going to happen. The […]

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Justin Mason sums up the timeline on this paper and various responses between the authors and the DSPAM developer. I'd put Cormack in the top 3 professors who taught computer science when I attended Waterloo. Spam: or, 'SlashDot spam drama'. So, a few days ago, I forwarded a link to a paper I'd been sent […]

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I wouldn't hold your breath for Microsoft to actually follow through on this or anything else worthwhile. I'm still waiting for them to halt all development and work on security issues as they said they would do in 2002. I haven't seen anything change since then on security so why would Gates do anything useful about […]

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Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004 – see the full article here. If you are having SPAM difficulties checkout SimpleFilter. Also reproduced here: Commtouch Reports Spam Trends For First Half of 2004: Viagra is King of Spam, 5 Countries Are Hosting 99.68% of Spammer Websites and Nearly 10% of All Spam is […]

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Wow, someone must have a clue there: A government-run “Do Not Spam” registry would only generate more unwanted e-mail because unscrupulous marketers would simply treat it as a source of leads, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. (source: Yahoo! News – 'Do Not Spam' List Will Not Work – FTC)

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From SpamBlogging: There is a feature in Exchange 2003 that is “new” (meaning that it wasn't in Exchange prior to this release). Under the “connection filtering” you can set it up to check messages against RBL servers and then toss them if they don't pass … I'll post this here because I'll hear from a […]

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According to a report by Nucleus Research the cost of spam on average is $1934 / year / employee. They don't provide proper links to their news releases or the report so I've just stored a copy here If you don't want spam to be an issue in your life any longer checkout SimpleFilter (disclaimer: I'm […]

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Well, this patent (#6,732,157) certainly won't hold up. Too much prior art. We were doing this at SimpleFilter before they even filed their patent in 2002. Network Associates is granted broad anti-spam patent Network Associates Inc. (NAI) has been granted a broad U.S. patent for technology covering “various computer program products, systems and methods” for filtering […]

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