Category Archives: Spam

why challenge/response email systems are bad

I always advise people against using C/R systems since they don't help solve the spam problem and often just annoy people. I've been too lazy to write something up with some good information. Thanks to Karsten Self, I don't have…

spam poetry

All your favorite, inane spam subject lines turned in to poetry.

there are no important emails

Repeat after me: There are no important emails. There are no important emails. There are no important emails…

I've maintained for a while there is no such thing as an
important/urgent/critical email. Since it's inception, email has been
unreliable. Email delivery is best-effort…

the law says I CAN-SPAM, so can i?

At my day job, a potential customer inquired:

Where are your Terms of Service located, we comply with Can-Spam (S.877) but want to know what if anything your TOS says before we host with you.

I figured they were basically asking…

organized spamming

SecurityFocus has an excellent article regarding how spammers are exploiting web script vulnerabilities to compromise machines and use them to send spam. This is a must read.
We've known for a while that spammers and virus writers were in cahoots to use…