Ugh! Not this again! Tim Bray appears to be in favor of a scheme for reducing spam by having people pay a little bit for each bit of content they send or post tthat they want getting past the spam filters of the future. ongoing - Internet Stamps. Since such a system would require some [...]

With all the efforts we go through to stop spam and to convince people not to respond to it, the fact that we still get so much proves that it must be working for somebody. Why does it work, and how can we try to stop it?
Even though only a tiny, tiny percentage of unsolicited [...]

Wired News: FTC Would Kill the Messenger: “Home computer users who unwittingly send out spam e-mail should be disconnected from the internet until their machines are fixed, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.”
Yeah! Let’s hope that zombies used for purposes other than spamming are cleaned up at the same time!
“The FTC said internet providers [...]

One quick tip for getting the maximum value from your mail client’s SPAM filter. Once you’ve got it configured or trained so that it’s not getting many if any false positives, be sure to have it automatically file new SPAM messages in their own folder rather than leaving them tagged as SPAM, but sitting in [...]

I just had an entertaining daydream about a way to strike back at spammers. Of course, there are a lot of details between a daydream and effective execution. Behold the mythical Smeagol spam filter.
The idea was born when I recieved a spam message titled “Personals: do you want to meet boys?” To which my silent [...]

One of the problems with SPAM is that you have to spend so much time downloading and deleting it. Another problem is that people you send email to do too. Your legitimate message may get lost in the deluge. How do you avoid the problem? One way is to offer people to whom you send [...]

The main purpose of SPF records is to determine whether an email was really sent by who it claims to come from in order to block or tag suspect emails. This can assist mail servers in handling both spam and worms. Another problem that can be reduced using SPF is the number of messages sent [...]

It’s a matter of priorities: Gecko Tribe offers a wide variety of products and services from t-shirts to iMovie plugins to RSS tools to FileMaker Pro plugins to online chess, and yes, a SPAM filter. My list of work priorities has grown quite long, and maintaining SPAMbaffle has taken a back seat to my core [...]

Some methods of reducing spam require the use of multiple email addresses. Throwaway addresses, which are created as needed for temporary purposes, and deleted when they start getting spam, have been discussed here in the past. Another use of multiple addresses is to set different levels of filtering on each. Give your friends and family [...]

SPF is an emerging standard that let’s the owners of domain names tell people who receive email claiming to be from that domain name which SMTP servers are allowed to send email from that domain name. That’s a slightly complex sentence, so let me give you an example. Then I’ll make a note or two [...]