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LinkedIn Network Spammers

September 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments

linkedin-spammersA few days ago, Ari Herzog offered some important advice for those people who hope to use LinkedIn just like any ordinary online networking tool, Facebook, Bebo, or MySpace, say. The main message is that if you want to network on LinkedIn,…

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New Wave Spam

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I heart spamI love spam, don’t you? It’s always entertaining, great fodder for a blog post, and provides insights into the workings of the human mind. Take the new wave spam that’s entering mailboxes by the million around the world right now.…

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Stopping Spam

July 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Stopping spam - from flickr, freezelightThere are few laws that cross national boundaries particularly when it comes to cyberspace. Indeed, there probably never will be an all-encompassing international system of rules and regulations that can cope with the net.

There are, of course, national laws aimed…

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Spam Analysis

June 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Control comment spamAnyone who says they have never had a problem with email spam is either my Dad, who has never touched a computer in his life (bless him), or they have staff to read their emails. Spam is ubiquitous in the…

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Captcha Takes No Prisoners

May 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments

RecaptchaNo one likes spam. I bet even spammers don’t like spam. If you run a blog with comments enabled it can be an almost full-time job keeping on top of it. If you’re on Wordpress, then the simplest way to…

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