SPAMMER TESTIMONY
Yesterday a notorious spammer testified in front of the Senate Commerce committee. Here’s the Washington Post article about his testimony. Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout and self-taught computer programmer from Louisiana, claims that he sends between 120...SPAM
I’m sure it takes creativity for the spammers to come up with new ways to force their messages through the spam filters. An increasing number of spam messages are sent with nonsense characters or strings in the subject line, for just that reason. But what in the world...MORE ABOUT I HATE SPAM
I Hate Spam from Sunbelt Software is a winner. I’m using it with Outlook 2002. It costs almost nothing ($19.95), it installed easily, and it works like a charm. It blocked 150 messages for me in the last two days; it missed three (each of which can be easily...I HATE SPAM
The onslaught of spam continues to be everyone’s number one complaint. Recently I’ve been hearing very nice things about a program named I Hate Spam, from Sunbelt Software. It’s spam blocking software that works with either Outlook or Outlook Express, and reportedly...SPAM KING
The Detroit Free Press wrote an article a couple of weeks ago about Alan Ralsky, one of the top five spammers in the world. Some people estimate that 150 major spammers are responsible for ninety percent of the spam we get, and Ralsky is one of the biggest. He’s...