Spam is the commercial that pops up in your face, intruding on that private zone. |
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Aerial shots of suburban homes and snow-tired pickups paid for with postwar Spam elegize what's soon to be lost. |
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Spam clogs our mailboxes daily to the point where it threatens viability of e-mail as a communications tool. |
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In the 1970s we ate pork pies, scotch pies, Spam, corned beef, cake, biscuits washed down with dilute orange squash. |
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I was a war baby, brought up on Spam sandwiches with best butter, and corned beef. |
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As a universal spam blocking tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to analogical applications. |
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Spam continues to be a nice little earner for the spammers, because people continue to purchase goods sold via junk email. |
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News of the plan to make Spam popular again triggered a wave of nostalgia at our house. |
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Your pantry is never without Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef, and sardines. |
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Chopped and mixed with salad dressing and pickles, Spam made a passable deviled ham. |
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Spam levels reached a yearly high in July, accounting for 77 per cent of all emails processed by BlackSpider. |
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Australia is prosecuting the first alleged spammer under its new-ish Spam Act. |
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Spam is one of the areas that the underworld of the internet are successfully exploiting for commercial gain. |
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Called Lumberjack Pie, it consists of instant potato, Spam, baked beans and Cheddar cheese. |
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For some reason, it doesn't seems to suffer from the same inundation of spam that the other site does. |
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And finding what you want in a text-based cacophony of spam, flame wars and off-topic nonsense can be maddening. |
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We had free school dinners and I loved spam fritters, sausage pie, stew, corned beef, or meat loaf, followed by pink custard and sponge. |
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Unlike with postal junk mail, spam places most of the cost burden on recipients and the larger infrastructure. |
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Of course, there are people out there who like spam, who love and crave it. |
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If spammers can add enough legitimate sites to the master spam list, they can foul it up and make it less usable. |
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And instead of the food she loves she'll be served with spam fritters, suet pudding and stewed prunes. |
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The funny bit is that the spam protection they are offering is just a bit of JavaScript that garbles email addresses so they cannot be harvested. |
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If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial. |
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The most popular image spam is pump-and-dump stock-scam messages, promoting low-valued stocks in an effort to quickly raise their value. |
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Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats. |
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The Trojan allows infected machines to be controlled remotely by attackers in order to send spam, for example. |
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This really gets my goat, as we can't quit the e-group, and their spam isn't intercepted, and it clutters up my inbox. |
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Then, too, the cost of the dial-up call to the ISP is increased by downloading a lot of spam. |
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Spam fritters, tapioca and stewed prunes are also on the school's menu. |
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Spam is up fivefold over the past 18 months, leaving the electronic mailboxes of Internet users jammed with billions of unwanted commercial e-mails. |
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Two weeks ago, Spam text messages started pinging the mobile phones of Hong Kong residents associated with the protests. |
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Spam exists because spammers can use various methods to hide their identities. |
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Every recipe had already been done,'' said Hagman, 55, who has also created Spam dishes of hash browns, quiche and stir fry. |
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Up until now, this blog has only attracted fairly light amounts of comment spam. |
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The spam emails contain details of a fictitious order for Web hosting or computer goods and thank the email recipient for a non-existent order. |
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I am getting so much spam on an old email addy that I'm going to have to switch it off. |
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Let's suppose, hypothetically, that spam is accepted, so everybody can do it. |
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On the last day of the week-long spam count, the spammers have really surpassed themselves. |
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Compared to the convenience of the tool, the ill effect of spam is very serious. |
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I get a fair amount of spam that is clearly illegal already under the rules governing fraud. |
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Federal law now makes it a felony to use falsehood and deception to hide the origin of the spam messages hawking your fraudulent wares. |
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It offers complete protection against phishing, pharming, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, viruses and spam. |
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Anti-spam filtering outfit Brightmail has released a list of the ten most common spam messages assaulting users' in-boxes this year. |
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And the economics of spam are only getting worse for those fighting a tide of rising junk mail that threatens to swamp users' in-boxes. |
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The filter could also send statistics on incoming spam back to the antispam software company for checkup and publishing on their Web site. |
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If these pages are computationally generated, then sooner or later the spam will overwhelm everything else. |
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To get blogs is easy nowadays and so you just spam by writing pseudo blogs and linking and pinging. |
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Short of closing off comments and pingbacks permanently, there is no way for a blogger to avoid spam. |
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Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception. |
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I don't want to debate here on whether a content farm is spam or has some value. |
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And if it is not spam clogging your inbox, it is viruses, worms and other nasties. |
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With so much spam clogging my email in-box, I couldn't survive any more without this program! |
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Or is this a disaster waiting to happen in the form of massive comments spam, trolls, and other blog delights? |
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What a timely example of private comment spam AND trolling rolled into one. |
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Spam has retained some popularity in various parts of the world, although regarded with disfavour by those who eschew processed foods or have pretensions to gourmet status. |
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Political fund-raising spam is still relatively rare, but it has already been twisted to fraudulent purposes. |
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Hackers tried to trick users into visiting a maliciously-constructed website using a blizzard of spam emails last week. |
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Not only has spam quadrupled but the spammers' technology and methods also have been adopted by virus writers, grifters, and thieves. |
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The email server searches through the body of the message for specific URLs that have been cultivated from a large sample of spam. |
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Companies can use the service too, but will that mean a bombardment of spam? |
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Someone's going to do something about it and since so much spam comes from other, ungovernable countries, a legislative solution won't help much. |
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It is possible if not probable that if you receive spam that it has also been sent out in your name. |
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Administering all ten techniques to control spam effectively can quickly become unmanageable. |
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While browsing through my spam this weekend I came across the quintessential proof that perhaps there is a sucker born every minute. |
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Hence a spam bot could, and did, enter hundreds of unwanted spams in a matter of minutes into the comments of a largely unprotected weblog. |
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The result of these techniques is to split spam words that make them unreadable by dictionary-based scanning tools. |
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No right thinking person ever looks at spam, it is a modern scourge that should be eradicated, by violent means if need be. |
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Although, thinking about it, I'm sure my vocabulary has been enlarged in previously unexplored directions by the energetic neologists of spam. |
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I was trying to speak up on behalf of the unjustly stigmatized, but I was treated as if I were some kind of soft-headed liberal spam lover. |
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It will also examine whether technology can be used to hit reduce the amount of spam clogging up the Net. |
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Over recent months, regular email spammers have used networks of compromised machines to disseminate spam. |
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Mary spoke before Spam could get the chance to interject his own ideas. |
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Not surprisingly, younger people and Netizen newbies are less likely to be bothered by spam than older people and internet veterans. |
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I've never sent spam, so why should my legitimate use of the Internet be curtailed? |
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What happens if they log in and find out that some spammer has sent them tons of spam including big attachment files? |
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Some systems allow the user to train the software to recognize spam or to exempt messages from spam blocking. |
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All anti-spam methods have the potential to occasionally flag a valid message as spam. |
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Despite miniscule response rates and the ire of email users everywhere, the number of people sending spam continues to grow. |
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Within your company, you can control spam by implementing strict internet and e-mail policies. |
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If we pass laws making it illegal both to send spam and to hire spammers to do so on your behalf then we're part way to solving the problem. |
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His current research interests are in the areas of search engines, open source software, spam and online communities. |
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Submitting to random search engines will usually only increase your email spam. |
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Three spammers were indicted in Pheonix last week for sending obscene spam in violation of US anti-spam regulations. |
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Online marketing isn't about banner ads and spam, it's about creating dialogue and community with an audience, and always has been. |
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Pop-up spam is ads that pop up on your screen if you're connected to the Internet regardless of whether you have your Web browser running. |
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Lycos is offering a screensaver which, once downloaded, would launch a Distributed Denial of Service attack against spam websites. |
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When you click my friend's original photo of her baby on the site, you find that the spam site has disabled most of the live links to her site. |
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A guy in California used a wireless laptop to send thousands of spam messages. |
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Sammy Leslie and Ultan Bannon know that wine lovers want good wines first and good trimmings after, so there are no stray tins of spam here. |
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Normally when discussing the history of spam, we look back to a lawyer who spammed newsgroups about 10 years ago. |
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According to recent estimates, spam accounts for more than seven in ten of all emails sent via the net. |
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I have to tell you, if you tried to email me, I've got some seriously vicious spam software that might have kept you from getting through at all. |
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But these shortcomings tend to be bundled together with broader concerns over spam, viruses, hacking, and all the other sundry ills of the world. |
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Using its rule base, SA performs a wide range of heuristic tests on email headers and body text to identify and score spam. |
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The system uses blacklists, heuristics, and NetIQ filters to identify spam. |
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Combine viruses with the scourge of spam and you have two heavy anchors dragging down Irish productivity. |
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Thus some people report an increase in spam after visiting certain websites and this may be the reason. |
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If the site is not itself a spam harvester, they certainly are not making any effort to obscure the addresses they have collected. |
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Another area of concern for IT professionals has been the growing onslaught of spam. |
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In fact, the proliferation of viruses and the onslaught of spam have left companies and consumers staggering. |
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Due to email address extractors and the amount of spam I get please type in small case with no spaces. |
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The spam wars are heating up in state courts, and may soon boil over into the federal circuit. |
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Making them opt in won't solve the spam problem and will bring the industry to a standstill. |
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Where once spams used false origination addresses to fool spam filters they are now using the same trick to fool users with phishing scams. |
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For instance, most people who have an email address have received junk mail or spam. |
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It's estimated half of all this traffic is now unsolicited junk mail, or spam. |
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Of this, more than half is unsolicited junk mail otherwise known as spam, and it comes at a cost. |
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Over the past year our virtual mailboxes have been swamped by spam, worms, and malignant viruses. |
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Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. |
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We're seeing a joining of the virus, hacker and spam scenes under the aegis of organised crime. |
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That seems to work for me, although as you mention it does leave them in the database marked as spam. |
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Spam is increasingly not being sent from a single traceable mail system. |
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But because of its success combined with its repugnance, spam is changing the very culture of the Internet with sorry results. |
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A recent survey ranked confidential information leakage as the major content issue facing corporations, after spam. |
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Criminals pursuing identity theft, phishing scams, and spam rings are running rampant on the internet. |
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After the plague of viruses and worms, the main security issues of 2003 were identity theft, spam, keyboard loggers and social engineering. |
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Now, if you're thinking SPAM and spyware issues will soon go away, don't hold your breath. |
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After surviving on a 1950s diet including kippers and Spam, the lads devoured the WI's homemade cakes, sandwiches, scones, sausage rolls and quiche. |
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Unless you feel it is from a legitimate company that has made a genuine mistake in mailing you, do not respond to spam email messages. |
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Their ISP will cancel their account upon receipt of spam complaints or ensuing mail bombs. |
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It is important to train end users on how to handle spam when it comes into their mailbox. |
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Every morning I struggle to distinguish between good and junk advertisements or spam mail from normal mail when opening my mailbox. |
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How wonderful it would be to rid my Outlook Express mailbox of spam mails forever. |
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If spammers had to pay money for each message, as paper bulk mailers do, they would spam a lot less. |
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One of the major sources of mailing lists for those who send out spam is addresses posted on websites. |
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As the maintainer of this blog with less and less time, I would gladly give it up in exchange for spam to no longer be an issue. |
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Attempts to devise a technological solution to spam are ongoing, and admittedly difficult. |
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People are using spam address lists they've got from somewhere because I get as many as ten duplicates of each item. |
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Unlike other forms of direct marketing, such as junk mail or telemarketing, spam should be considered a threat. |
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On the new address I have very strong spam filtering enabled at the ISP end, and almost none gets through to me. |
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For two hearty servings you'll need a 6oz tin of Spam, 2oz of plain flour, one small egg, a pinch each of salt and pepper, and 2 fl oz of non-fizzy beer. |
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Surreptitious e-mailers sending spam anonymously will likely ignore the requirement. |
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Suggestions include a video tape of corn growing, a CD of elevator music, or a simple can of spam. |
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Maybe it's just me, but my current spam load went from zero to a bazillion emails about Rolex watches. |
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But as the years went on and he started receiving close to 1,000 spam e-mails a day, this determined tyke decided to take action. |
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Most people seem to be groaning under the load of spam they get these days. |
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Postini then filters out the spam and the virus-infected messages, among other things, before sending your mail on. |
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He offers tips to businesses looking to capitalize on the craze without being labelled a sender of spam. |
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I recommend not using the bounce feature, as it's not as yet convincing enough to fool the spam merchants. |
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I work in internet advertising so sometimes the spam merchant techniques to grab people's attention will perk my interest. |
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However, one of the problems of the internet are spam messages to your email account that waste your time and can even be fraudulent. |
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It was so nice to see your website right after I received a spam mail message from Acme Online Systems! |
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Spim is more insidious than spam because messages pop up automatically when a user is logged in, making them harder to ignore. |
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Last year, the government blocked dozens of computer servers believed to be sending spam. |
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It appears the issue lies with spam filtering software used by a number of internet service providers and web servers. |
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Obviously, not all spam filters work that well, but this seems like a really odd choice as a way to block spam. |
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However, the list is effective at blocking the most egregious spammers so it should result in a significant reduction in spam. |
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Both programs allow you to see what it was that caused them to flag a particular piece of email as spam. |
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While it's not immediately known whether any of the recipients fell for the story, the spam mail has only led to smirks. |
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It is estimated that a majority of all email traffic on the Internet is spam. |
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False positives are cases where legitimate messages are misidentified as spam. |
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It counts forging headers, misleading subject lines or falsely claiming an email was requested as the defining characteristics of spam. |
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If you are reporting spam or abusive e-mail, we require the full email header to investigate the complaint. |
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In your e-mail header, include something unique to the recipient that's therefore unlikely to be in a spam message. |
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History has proven over and over that chasing spam this way doesn't work because it's a never ending game of whack-a-mole that never gets anywhere. |
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Given enough identifiers, every spam attack is surmountable. |
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Most fly-by-night spam websites are registered for only a single year. |
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If this did not make the company rethink, it would at least give customers enough time to delete all the spam and pop-up adverts hurled at them by other online marketers. |
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The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam. |
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These messages are like spam e-mail messages, but impossible to trace. |
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End user attitudes to seldom offered spyware screening services from ISPs mirror attitudes to spam filtering when such services were in their infancy four or five years ago. |
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Microsoft said yesterday it had introduced a white list scheme to allow well-behaved email marketing firms to reach its customers without falling foul of its spam filters. |
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Feature recognizers check the headers or the body of the e-mail looking for patterns that human beings have identified as markers of spam or non-spam mail. |
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Spending on e-security is set to soar in Europe during 2005, according to a report by HP, which said that 37 percent cited spam and viruses as their biggest concern. |
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Users question the effectiveness of the measure, which they argue is the wrong way of dealing with the problems open mail relays pose in the overall spam problem. |
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Other threats include viruses, spam and inappropriate e-mail. |
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This is another case of blog spam exposing an unmet market need. |
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The forces of evil have produced a devilish tool whereby spam can be sent to thousands of Windows users in minutes, in the guise of system alerts. |
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Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information. |
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Mindless bots, driven not to dominate but to sell, sign up for thousands of free email accounts every minute, sending millions of spam messages from them. |
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One of the advantages of using a Web-based approach is that email can be retrieved far more quickly than if you use a desktop-based spam filtering package. |
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Webmasters regularly ignore messages they suspect to be spam. |
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Part of my botheration sprang from guilt, over not getting to my mail in a timely fashion, or getting to letters before they sank in the spam pits. |
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Presumably this is to get around some of the heuristics used by spam filters, such as checking that a message isn't largely HTML, appears to contain actual content, etc. |
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The associate director does not think users will have any problems with the software, with the exception that some messages will be mistakenly labelled as spam. |
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Users hate pop-up ads almost as much as they do spam, but they get noticed better than banners so advertisers continue to demand them from Web sites. |
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You also need to keep out the bad guys who would love to fill your PC with malicious spyware, premium-rate diallers, internet worms and spam relays. |
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The economics of spam are so favorable to spammers that no matter how high regulation erects the barrier to entering the business it wouldn't be high enough. |
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I've been wading through less spam lately thanks to a tip I got. |
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Of course, the same people who are clueless enough to respond to spam may also be the ones who get phished and may also not hear about what to do about either. |
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As soon as you appear on a few spam lists, it just snowballs. |
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It is Europe's spammiest ISP and one which we, as well as Italy's other main networks and many US networks, consider to be Europe's worst spam problem. |
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It also features a spam Misspellings Dictionary with more than 400 examples of the most common misspellings of words used by spammers to bypass filters. |
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One should not confuse the former with the latter since as far as I know the latter is totally on the up and up and doesn't spam people in order to increase their userbase. |
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Most spam to hit U.K. mailboxes originates from outside the country. |
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The gang plants software bugs in computers that allow it to steal passwords, and it rents out huge networks of computers to others for sending out viruses and spam. |
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If you post messages to popular mailing lists or put your email address on web pages, you dramatically increase the chances that you'll get a lot of spam. |
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We decided on the breaded spam, garlic rice, barbeque sauce and iced tea. |
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Forty per cent of all e-mail sent on the internet during 2003 was spam. |
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If Australia goes ahead and outlaws spam then, at the very least, we ought to organise a treaty that would see the same laws enforceable on both sides of the Tasman. |
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The chief reason people send spam is that it's incredibly cheap to do so. |
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All of the lenders claim that their agreements prohibit spamming, but plenty of lead generators then subcontract out to other lead generators, many of whom use spam. |
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The thing about spam that's really surprising and makes me distraught is that previously reputable marketers are willing to risk their entire brand for a few bucks. |
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Figures released this week indicate that UK schoolkids receive more spam than actual email, with three quarters of messages arriving in inboxes coming from junk mailers. |
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As Mrs. bun quickly realizes, trying to order anything without spam will only get you into trouble. |
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Of course with National Spam Appreciation Week this week, the one event we'll all be counting the days towards is this year's Spammies. |
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Without these deprivations we would have missed the exquisite pleasure of a Spam barmcake, bought at a local cafe on pay day. |
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The idea, similar to the way some have tried to stop spam, is that people can easily report a site that is designed for phishing, and it goes into the communal database. |
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Design Plus will be responsible for creatively enhancing the image of the family of SPAM brands for trademark purposes. |
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I was momentarily distracted by the latest item of spam in my inbox. |
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This year, Sophos has intercepted hundreds of millions of fake pharmaceutical spam adverts and fake pharmaceutical websites, promoted by affiliate members. |
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The new computer software has already purged my database of hidden spam. |
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But campaigners claim that exempting businesses from the law has given spammers justification to claim their spam is destined solely for business inboxes. |
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The screensavers make constant http requests to spam websites. |
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A strangely high proportion of the spam I receive is written in gibberish. |
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Increasingly, it appears that to master spam and reclaim electronic mail as a trusted communications medium, the entire e-mail system must be rethought. |
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There are other irritating blights of the Internet age, like spam. |
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This shortcoming creates a means for hackers to spam users with a maliciously constructed email designed to trigger this buffer overflow condition. |
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As CalCPA moves from hardcopy bulletins to electronic versions, remember to monitor your company's spam inbox. |
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He poured the Argentine stew in a gobby mess on top of the Spam. |
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He appeared sporadically on UK television in the early 1970s including his role as the gangster Laughing Spam Fritter opposite Adam Faith in Budgie. |
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Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam, launched the recipe competition in 1991 to find out how people were using the canned pork and ham luncheon meat, Stoller said. |
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In the first VBSpam review of 2012, Halon Security's award winning email and spam gateway Virtual Spam Prevention was approved its seventh consecutive VBSpam award. |
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Some people are worried about marketing calls at dinnertime or junk mail or spam, while others are more concerned about Big Brother. |
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One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server. |
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The most common misuses of e-mail are fakemail and spam. Fakemail is the act of sending an e-mail that appears to be from another individual. |
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Further, you will not acieve your anything by posting idiotistic threads like these, apart from resorting to spam and swearing. |
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This policy has dramatically reduced the problems with smurf accounts, spam, flaming, and various types of bad behaviour on the forums. |
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But a double cross post to applicable groups is not velveeta, spam, or bad netiquette. |
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The inner layer of defense uses Brightmail's anti-spam technology to detect spam and Sophos anti-virus technology to detect viruses. |
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This means that many spam senders will never become whitelisted and email will never be accepted from them. |
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Anti-spare products often use information about the webpage pointed to by an email as an indicator of whether the message is spam or not. |
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The product's spam filter uses heuristic analysis, pattern matching, spam definitions, white lists and black lists. |
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In addition, many new types of spam calls are now are able to bypass Interactive Voice Response systems used by traditional robocall blockers. |
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They also periodically receive a digest notifying them when spam has been caught and sidelined. |
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We continue to believe that laws and lawsuits are tactics in the war against spam but not silver bullets. |
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In September 2001, the 16,500-square-foot SPAM Museum opened in Austin, Minn. |
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Despite spam filters and blocks, teachers in the district recently started becoming deluged by spam and immediately asked why. |
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Dealing with spam can exhaust network storage, bandwidth and end-user support systems. |
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United's NetZero and Juno automated spam filters identify approximately 3 million pieces of possible spam per day. |
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Without the user's knowledge, a spambot hijacks a computer and uses it to relay spam or virus infected e-mail. |
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At another North East company, it found a virus bypassed security systems, opening up the email system as a spam relay. |
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The first spam reduction system to remove 99 percent of spam before it ever reaches a customer's mail server has been introduced by Calif. |
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The company went on to claim that the fine was necessary as AbFab was committing a civil wrong every time it sent out a spam message. |
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Guided by similar self interests, the US Federal government also recently codified opting-out and what constitutes spam. |
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If your recipients no longer wish to receive your emails and can't opt out, they may report you as spam. |
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InBoxer outsmarts the spammers because it doesn't just block spam, it actively seeks good messages to place in the Inbox. |
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According to the lawsuit, Richter either phished MySpace accounts himself or acquired a list of phished accounts to launch spam campaigns. |
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Everyone can agree that the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act to illegalize spam e-mail was a good law. |
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Within hours of the death of pop star Michael Jackson, spam trading on his demise hit in-boxes, a security firm said today as it warned that more junk mail was in the offing. |
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Invaluable for Spil Games is Halon's effectiveness in greylisting potential spammers as possible spam email messages are temporarily rejected by the system and then evaluated. |
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Oodle also uses patent-pending tools to remove duplicate listings, prune dead links, detect SPAM and inappropriate listings, and assess overall listing quality. |
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Selis said schemes such as clickjacking had grown more pervasive, and that millions of Facebook users had probably been exposed to Adscend's spam. |
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We intend to show how image spam mails can be employed as a steganography medium for securely transmitting sensitive information over open networks. |
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Spim is more intrusive than spam because it pops up instantly on the screen, requiring users to accept or decline the messages before they will go away. |
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When an end-user opens or even previews an e-mail containing an embedded spam beacon, it sends its signal back to the spammer, validating the address. |
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In addition, spam threatens to stifle some of the major benefits of services such as e-mail and e-commerce, as well as reduce consumer confidence in the Internet. |
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Even with legal crackdown on mobile spammers, SMS spam and SMiShing continue to grow at a rapid pace as there are billions of mobile phone subscribers who use text messaging. |
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Hormel Foods first produced SPAM luncheon meat in 1937 in Austin, Minn. |
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Several new terms were mentioned including BACN which is similar to spam, but it is unwanted e-mail that you did request rather than unwanted e-mail that you did not request. |
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You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup. |
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Every time I get spam in my inbox, I add the sender to my blocklist. |
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