3 month ago
joshua : How to stop junk mail
Jeremy Zawodny : How to stop junk mail - How to stop junk mail: I can personally vouch for Green Dimes
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3 month ago
Linkorama : On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users - 42% of the top users follow more than 666 other twitterers.
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4 month ago
nelson : Car warranty scam - Just got an aggressive junk phone call like this
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo - Interesting experiment, seems like imbalanced incentives at first brush. Mahalo's costs will soar to fend off vandalism and maintain coordinated -- and contributors could mostly be from the SEO community.
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5 month ago
43folders : A Whole Lotta Nothing – Stop asking, start filtering - I can't say this enough: I have **never** posted anything here based on a press release, and I never will. I wish the more loathsome PR people's clients could know what sociopathic asshats they have working for them.
joshua : Matt Haughey on Stop asking, start filtering - Filters for ditching PR spam
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6 month ago
philgyford : Free Traffic For Your Squidoo Lens on Squidoo - Instructions for how to spam people via Twitter. As Ian said, wankers, making the Internet a little bit more unpleasant for everyone else.
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Andy Baio : Six botnets responsible for 85% of all spam - and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though [via]
nelson : Spam botnet sources - 6 botnets account for most of the Internet's spam
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7 month ago
Linkorama : E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam - "I suspect possibly we’ll see a morphing of e-mail and other, more instant methods," he says, "but there will always be a need for people to be able communicate asynchronously, that is, send messages that won’t be read or replied to imm
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7 month ago
philgyford : The Joyent Community / Any news on IronPorts (or even spamassassin or grep -v "st0ckZ")? - "A brief history of announced spam solutions from Joyent/Textdrive." Since 2005. Still waiting.
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9 month ago
nelson : Don't spam Arrington - stupid marketing tricks backfire
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet - doesn't explain who paid to send the spams, but a great glimpse into how spambots operate [via]
nelson : Tracing a spam botnet - Excellent detailed account of tracing Ron Paul spam back into botnets and email spam services
Rod Begbie : Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet - Research - SecureWorks - Interesting insight into the control interface for a spam-blasting botnet. [via] #
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11 month ago
nelson : PayPerPost misery - Thoughts from the heads of spammers after they are busted
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Online Social Network Spam: Growing Trend? - Unfortunately, it seems like you can’t have something good on the Internet without someone coming along to abuse it, and that’s as true of online social networks as anything.
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Linzie Hunter's spam one-liners are just extraordinarily good. She takes spam subject lines and turns them into typographic art. - They're really lovely. She made some Moo cards with them and they looked awesome and I'm wondering if the Moo crew should try and bring her on as one of their regular designers.
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11 month ago
nelson : Ron Paul spamnet - Someone's disguising the mail's origins
43folders : Researchers: Ron Paul campaign e-mails originating from spambots - via Nelson
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12 month ago
nelson : Russian Business Network - The ISP of choice for online criminals
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12 month ago
nelson : Another PDF hole - Adobe has gotten Reader installed on every computer in the world; don't they bear some responsibility?
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13 month ago
adamrg : anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript - Brilliant!
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Stephen at PRBlogger has put up a big post warning PR people not to spam bloggers... - I have to be honest, Stephen has done his utmost to make this (limited) situation right and I can't thank him enough. If his post gets the attention of people in the PR industry that'll be a really good start.
deusx : prblogger.com » Blog Archive » Brothels update - "Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."
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14 month ago
joshua : The software awards scam - Yet another tale of SEO crap. Shocking.
43folders : The software awards scam « Successful Software - Five stars! Reminds me of the ubiquitous '90s "Cool Site of the Day!" awards.
Jeremy Zawodny : The software awards scam - The software awards scam: software awards or link scams?
nelson : Software awards scam - Guy makes a fake program, wins many 5 star awards
Eric Meyer : The software awards scam - 1. Submit a worthless "program" to download sites. 2. Get a bunch of 5-star ratings. 3. Profit!!! [via John] [via]
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14 month ago
joshua : brad's life - rejecting residential zombies with qpsmtpd
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