atmaspheric | endeavors

Does sending multiple copies of the same message get a better response or open rate?
There must be some logic as to why I sometimes get a dozen of the same message at once. It’s interesting to note these when I scan messages caught first by Spam Assassin and then by Spam Sieve [...]

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When I suddenly get close to 4000 (3935 actually) messages at once, I have to just delete them. If you sent me one and it ended up there, you lose. No way I can possible be expected on any level to manually sort that much crap.
If you don’t read my blog, well then [...]

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This is hilarious! I was waiting for Lisa to post the clip so I could blog it here…
This is a brilliant little piece by Rob Courddry that provides first hand commentary straight from one of the world’s large-scale spammers. [On Lisa Rein’s Radar: Daily Show On Spam - Rob Courddry Fights Back]

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Brought to you by the letters IE…
CNET News.com sleuth John Borland wanted to see what would happen to his PC if he loaded rogue spyware apps onto the machine. That’s when all hell broke loose. [CNET News.com]

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Deactivating the “catch-all” mailbox for my domain has instantly reduced the spam flow. No more messages for emails that do not exist. Instead spammers…you get to bounce!
There is still a great deal of spam to manage but Spam Assassin and Spam Sieve are taking care of business very nicely.

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Amazing no one thought to do this earlier…Taking a page from the Chinese government’s playbook, AOL proved the first U.S. Internet provider to attack spam by taking down the websites of spammers. By denying access to the pages to which spam emails link, spammers have no commercial motive to keep sending the messages to annoyed [...]

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So with the move to Pair comes a nice installation of SpamAssassin which is great as I was not really up the challenge of installation in previous hosting environments.
My goal with filtering spam was to create a separate box just to collect the spam and check it when I got the chance. My usual [...]

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AP - As spam-fighting tools become increasingly aggressive, e-mail recipients risk losing newsletters and promotions they’ve requested. [Yahoo! News - Technology - Spam]

A new study attempts to quantify missed bulk mailings. Return Path, a company that monitors e-mail performance for online marketers, found that nearly 19 percent of e-mail sent by its customers never reached [...]

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Good advice for anyone rolling their own through the use of SpamAssasin…
I started looking at the patterns of what was getting through SpamAssassin to try to fight it more effectively. I ended up taking a couple of steps that are rather drastic. They’re certainly not recommended for everyone, but I think a certain [...]

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“With Mac OS X, we can flip vital services onto backup circuits and IP setups in seconds, trace attackers and weather the storm without our services being interrupted. I don’t sit around wondering how many crackers and script-kiddies are hammering our servers; I know those Macs aren’t letting them in.”
Linford’s main servers are Power Mac [...]

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Many, many unhappy returns [The Register]

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The United States, Canada, China, South Korea and the Netherlands are the top five birthplaces of spam worldwide, according to a new analysis. [CNET News.com]

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Empower Interactive have published a study on mobile spam. [textually.org]

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How many emails has your spam filter picked with with ‘hello’ as the subject in the past few weeks… I can’t even count that high, it’s so many. As I clear things up, I can’t help but think of the episode in Seinfeld when Uncle Leo gets arrested shoplifting. It’s the same one [...]

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Dutch police raid 23 apartments and arrest 52 people in one of the largest busts of suspected Nigerian e-mail hucksters. The detainees’ identities are not released, but police believe most were, in fact, Nigerian. [Wired News]

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Wireless operators are forming an ISP Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group to develop methods to shut down spammers before they appear on the networks, reports InfoWorld. The group plans to build a so-called “neighborhood watch” which will gather information about spammers,… [textually.org]

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Upgraded mine earlier today…
SpamSieve 2.1.1 offers faster message processing, improved accuracy with the Panther version of Apple’s Mail.app, better interaction with Eudora and Entourage, and a statistics window that show percentages instead of ratios, among other fixes. [Mac Net Journal]

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Sex, property and the cachet of fame were spam’s top lures in 2003
Viagra. Lowest mortgage rates. Hot XXX action. As seen on Oprah.
Still reading? Seen this somewhere?
[ZDNet UK]

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Alan Ralsky has long been one of the most prolific senders of junk e-mail in the world. But he says the new spam law’s potential penalties are making him rethink his business. [New York Times]

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