How to make spam unstoppable

Good news for spammers, the smart filtering software used to catch spam can be beaten.With a little ingenuity it is possible to create messages that [...]

Spam map

Map of where spam comes from.(via Kottke). [...]

preventing comment spam

Google makes it clear what to do if you get comment spam. [...]

Image spam and how to fight it

Interesting overview of recent developments in the seedy world of spam at OUT-LAW.COM. [...]

Spam beater?

I was reading this article about using drag-and-drop to prevent spamming on on web site forms. The idea is that you drag your comment into a vir [...]

The Spam Farms of the Social Web

Very enlightening post about how cyber conmen are taking advantage of social websites like Digg for financial gain. The author Niall Kennedy says:In t [...]

UK anti-spam law

Article taken from The Register:New UK anti-spam laws coming into effect tomorrow will have limited effect in turning the tide in the fight against [...]

The Spam Question

I'm concerned that I may have missed something here. There was a short period for a while there when it became quite popular on your blog to ask a q [...]

Make love not spam overload

A plan to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers seems to be getting out of control.Article at BBC News. [...]

Check your junk mail carefully

Out-law story describing a company who assumed emails were spam, when in fact they were notification of legal proceedings.Emails that initiated lega [...]

Spammers are lazy

encode your email address using numeric character references and you get a lot less spam because, says Phil Ringnalda, spammers are lazy. [...]

No no follow

12 Reasons against Google's suggested rel="nofollow": No No Follow. [...]

The Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management

7 top tips for making the most of your email marketing campaign. I'm particularly keen on te second point: Failing to spam-check the email copy before [...]

email encoder

nifty little php script to display your email address encoded and according to Phil Ringnalda, spammers are lazy, so it could drastically cut down o [...]

Large quantities of bacon

Utterly bizarre spam message blogged at Iambic Spamtameter. (via Coudal). [...]

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CAPTCHAs and the blind

Aaron Cannon believes there are no perfect solutions to using CAPTCHAs.In order to keep out spammers and blind people, please type the characters you [...]

Search according to your blog interests

Dave Winer mentions an idea that makes great sense:A very simple idea for improving Google search and getting rid of spam problems all in one swoop [...]

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A new design for The Letter