AOL AND SPAM-BLOCKING

Feb 28, 2004 | spam

Everybody complains to their ISP about spam, even though it’s not really the ISP’s problem. They’ve responded with spam filters and message blocking which occasionally goes awry. AOL seems to get it wrong a bit more often than most. I belong to a...

JUNK MAIL FILTERING

Feb 4, 2004 | Outlook, spam

Outlook 2003 continues to do a good job of filtering out spam. There’s so much spam coming in to my mailbox that I simply stopped looking in the Junk Mail folder. I just turned on the option to permanently delete spam instead of moving it to the Junk Mail folder...

VIRUS SPAM

Jan 29, 2004 | security, spam

You’re probably getting confusing messages in your inbox. They’re a side-effect of the MyDoom virus, but they’re not directly generated by the virus at all. Instead, they’re “nondelivery” reports advising you that a message from you...

GOVERNMENT VIOLATES PRIVACY PLEDGE

Jan 8, 2004 | spam

Here’s a chilling article about a government agency deliberately violating a promise not to publish e-mail addresses of people commenting on a proposed government regulation – for no reason except that it’s inconvenient to honor the promise. Spammers...

OUTLOOK 2003 ANTI-SPAM UPDATE

Dec 22, 2003 | Outlook, spam

Microsoft Outlook’s 2003 has been doing an extraordinary job of filtering my spam – almost no false positives and a 95%+ job of sending spam to the junk folder. My fear, tough, was that it would start to falter as the spammers became familiar with it and...

MORE URBAN LEGENDS

Dec 4, 2003 | spam

Time for our annual reminder that most e-mail warnings of bad things are false, ranging from the intentionally harmful to benign urban myths. An e-mail message is circulating widely about an alleged phone scam, where pressing the wrong button during a recorded message...