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... funny, just as some are projecting the “ end of spam ,” others are of the opinion that spam is here to stay . I tend to fall into the latter camp. Spam is not ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-01-20 15:30 - 0 comments

... big hearing because the notification was caught in the spam filter is very funny. Unless you were involved in the case. It's amazing ... for tightening up your defenses, especially relative to spam, but be smart about it. Figure out what 10 or 20 domains YOU CANNOT BLOCK ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-07-16 13:13 - 1 comment

... figure out how to tune it (it's like the early days of spam), but it's a start. To be clear, it's not the long term answer. ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-10-03 08:55 - 3 comments

... trying to decide whether or not to produce a new form of spam or virus via VoIP services for the greater good of his internet ... to either increase their list for sale or for personal spam reasons so this just inforces the need for at-rest data encryption I would ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-06-09 08:40 - 3 comments

... MXLogic patents the spam cocktail - tasty! So what? - Thanks to Spamroll for pointing me ... MXLogic has been awarded a patent for what seems to be a spam cocktail. Basically using fuzzy logic to combine multiple detection techniques to detect spam. Normally I don't care much about patents because most of the ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-07-11 08:25 - 1 comment

... personally? It seems to me that the sheer weight of the spam and the news pitches -- combined with all of the useful emails that we ... place where I tend not to take calls. There is a lot of spam and most of the stuff I guess isn't really relevant, but it's ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-11-21 09:12 - 2 comments

... that happens out there are attacks launched via zombies. Spam, denial of service, malware propagation, etc. all lies at the foot of the ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-10-24 09:23 - 2 comments

... it works. It won't. We tried that when I was in the anti-spam business as well and lots of other folks have tried OPSEC-like programs, ... program, you stop. So the fact that a quick scan of my spam folder continues to show lots of Man-XL adverts, someone must be quite a ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-08-29 08:11 - 2 comments

... Those guys got the VA Supreme Court to overturn the states spam laws and thus overturn his conviction for being a scummy email profiteer. ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-09-16 09:00 - 0 comments

... - here Are the companies the culprits of stock spam? Will shutting them down make a difference? I'm not sold, I think ... that do this, not the companies. - here Trackback spam is a problem. That's news, duh! That's why I had to shut down ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-03-22 09:51 - 2 comments