45 items tagged with spam

Vertical Response. Awesome. (December 12, 2008) Nice to see a little customer service in the world.

EcoPhones on MSNBC (January 1, 2008) In which my spam complaint about EcoPhones makes MSNBC.

Off Target for Aqua Media (December 12, 2007) Selling targeted services through spam. Ah, the irony.

Teleflip spams your friends (November 11, 2007) Classless move by teleflip.

Link buyers get slapped by Google (October 10, 2007) Link buying and other unscrupulous search engine gaming techniques have started to catch up with sites.

Spam forgery (April 4, 2007) Some spammers are going to great lengths to make some messages look like they come from me.

Conversation with a comment spammer (January 1, 2007) In which I engage a new comment spammer and find out what he thinks.

Driveway spam (January 1, 2007) My mysterious subscription to the New York Times and how I stopped it.

Webcore Labs... harboring spammers (December 12, 2006) A web host who harbors spammers -- as long as the host's resources aren't abused.

Political recorded messages (November 11, 2006) Automated political telemarketing is getting out of hand.

EcoPhones tries to justify their spam (November 11, 2006) A spammer responds. He just doesn't get it.

Google Blog ping full of spam (October 10, 2006) Google blog search is getting overrun by spam.

Re-educating a spammer (October 10, 2006) In which I attempt to lead someone from a life of spam.

EcoPhones and Larry Lankford: spammers (October 10, 2006) Want to chat with a spammer? Here's their toll-free number.

Link sales at W3C (July 7, 2006)

Niche spam (February 2, 2006) How effective can really spam aimed at specific niche markets possibly be?

Feedburner fesses up (February 2, 2006) Feedburner spammed some people. And instead of making excuses, they did the right thing.

My trackback spam problem (October 10, 2005) Trackback spammers are making life difficult.

Local Baseball spam (June 6, 2005) Abusing ticket sales information leads to frustration.

Blog and Forum automatic submission scripts (December 12, 2004) Spammers are buying ever-more sophisticated tools to facilitate their comment spamming. Fight back.

RSSCache: spammers (October 10, 2004) Marketing to bloggers requires tact and intelligence. Spam isn't the way to go.

My Spam in RSS (October 10, 2004) My spam is now in an RSS feed for your enjoyment.

New comment spam technique (July 7, 2004) Comment spammers are filling innocent blogs with spam links and then spamming those URLs into other blogs in a roundabout way to increase search engine rankings.

Comment Spam Manifesto (November 11, 2003) Spammers are hereby put on notice. Your comments are not welcome. If the purpose behind your comment is to advertise yourself, your Web site, or a product that you are affiliated with, that comment is spam and will not be tolerated. We will hit you where it hurts by attacking your source of income.

Comment spam (September 9, 2003) I'm fed up and want your help in devising a solution that will curtail comment and TrackBack spam.

Inter-dimensional spam (July 7, 2003) Spam advertising a $5000 reward for help in finding a Dimensional Warp Generator or a Acme 5X24 series time transducing capacitor. Seriously.

It's an MLM exchange (July 7, 2003) I suppose it was to be expected, but it appears that my Textad exchange is very popular with MLM sites.

Spam Spell Checker (June 6, 2003) Spam tricks my filters by misspelling all the words. So how about a spam filter that works by spell check?

Phone spam (May 5, 2003) My first piece of spam sent to my cell phone reminds me of my pager waking me in the middle of the night.

Where does spam come from? (April 4, 2003) The Center for Democracy & Technology spent six months conducting a controlled study to determine where spammers get email addresses from and how to reduce the amount os spam you receive.

Getting the Gist of marketing (February 2, 2003) If it's the first time in a very long time that you've contacted your customer lists, do it right.

Is this the end? (January 1, 2003) Spammers are starting to figure out SpamAssassin.

Spam humor (January 1, 2003) Cruising through the spam that SpamAssassin caught in the last month, I came across some funny messages.

Fun with spammers (December 12, 2002) After this spam from a low end recruiter, I thought I'd try a different approach.

Interactive ICQ Spam (November 11, 2002) I've received spam via ICQ before, but this one was different.

Email Marketing Usability (September 9, 2002) Jakob Nielsen turns to a subject dear to my heart: the improving your email newsletters to enhance the reader experience.

SpamAssassin plugin for Eudora (September 9, 2002) Users of Eudora can de-spam their mailbox with this free plugin.

IMAPAssassin (September 9, 2002) Filter your mail with SpamAssassin from your desktop over IMAP.

SpamAssassin mail proxy (August 8, 2002) Filter your mail for spam with this perl tool.

Anti filter (August 8, 2002) Do spam filters violate the rights of email users?

Review: CleanMyMailbox (June 6, 2002) CleanMyMailbox would like to keep your mailbox spam-free. We reviewed the service to see how it performs.

Spam service redux (June 6, 2002) It's not the ideal spam filtering service we described recently, but Clean My Mailbox is close.

Spam filter service (June 6, 2002) Spam is a problem for users that could be solved by the right filtering service. This is what the ideal service might look like.

Spam of the Day (February 2, 2002)

Spam of the Day (February 2, 2002)