March 2008
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Advisory
Why you should not send ‘remove me’ requests to spammers
Have you ever wondered why your spam emails keep on increasing although you regularly click the ‘remove me’ links in spam you receive?
Consider this.
When an email is sent out by spammers to your email address, they do not really have any idea if it is valid or not. Your email address could just have been […] -
Miscellaneous
Facts and figures about spam
Research companies estimate that spam email accounts for about 73% of global emails. This is equivalent to 23.5 billion emails of the estimated minimum 32.5 billion emails sent per day.
The most common type of spam is advertising-related accounting for roughly 36% of all spam messages. This is followed by adult-related in subject (31.7%) and finance-related […] -
Miscellaneous
Be in a friend’s mailing list and be a spammer’s delight
No, I don’t refer to joining mailing lists where the email message is customized to reflect the recipient’s identity or the email message is addressed to an aliased egroup.
I refer to being in a mailing list of someone, supposedly a friend, who appears to get a kick out of showing that s/he knows many people by […] -
Advisory
The definition of spam is getting stricter
For sometime, it was the common impression that just because a bulk email is not commercially beneficial to the sender, then the bulk email is not considered spam.
For those who still subscribe to that definition, think again. The content or resulting benefits of the bulk email are not relevant. These days, it is not […] -
Tips and Tricks
How to avoid being spammed
The Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia (CAUBE.AU) and the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) have articles on “How to Avoid Being Spammed.”
The articles deal with topics like:
1. Where do spammers get my address?
2. What should I do to avoid spam?
3. I’m already on the spammer’s list. What can I do to stop it?
Although […]
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