Tag Archives: spam

The CAN-SPAM legislation is a piece of shit…

That’s a technical term, and CAN-SPAM appears to mean what it says on the tin,’can spam’. It seems that more and more US businesses are realising they can spam everyone as long as they put an opt out on the … Continue reading

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‘Proper’ spam on the increase

The USA’s bodged anti-spam legislation (CAN-SPAM) means that US companies can send unsolicited commercial email as long as there’s an opt out. I suppose this is a result of the ‘free speech’ laws and advertising lobby groups. Unfortunately one of … Continue reading

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Mobile spam

200 million cellphone users hit by SMS spam tidal wave in China  Recently reported by Sophos, go here for their story.

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PDFAssassin

No doubt kicked off when PDF spam started arriving in out inboxes PDFAssassin attempts to scan PDF files for ‘spammyness’ and adds the Spam Assissin score; http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfassassin/

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x-authentication-warning

Had an issue today with spam filters blocking legit emails and it turns out that it was because the sender was spoofing the ‘from’ address. I suspect this is common when web based apps get http servers like Apache to … Continue reading

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DSPAM

I’ve been doing my bi-annual review of the anti-spam and anti-virus market place and completely missed DSPAM until Mike from Tall Emu (the Online-Armor people) sent me the link. After a couple of hours research and spotting that local firm … Continue reading

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