Comments on: Spam is sucking life out of Email

By: Anonymous Person

Anonymous Person — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:24:21 +0000

I know the post is a bit old, but the thing I find most annoying about SpamArrest is that Gmail seems to always (or very frequently) mark SpamArrest's verification requests as Spam.

Therefore, Gmail users who mail me usually don't see those verification requests until they paw through their spam folder, if they ever do.

Not SpamArrest's fault, but it's irksome nonetheless.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:58:25 +0000

In our startup we use Gmail as hosted spam filter. This is works great and we have 0 false positives. We use the setup as described at http://www.iopus.com/guides/gmail-spam-filter.htm

By: IT Security » Blog Archive » Spam getting worse - not better

IT Security » Blog Archive » Spam getting worse - not better — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:01:58 +0000

[...] For some reason there is a LOT of news this week about continued increases in spam traffic. The New York Times is on the case. Mark Evans weighs in. As does Om Malik. [...]

By: tecosystems » Spam Isn’t Just Killing Email

tecosystems » Spam Isn’t Just Killing Email — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:14:45 +0000

[...] appear to be one of those afflictions that will be with us more or less forever. It’s killing Om, bugging Tim, driving Edward crazy, and is more or less the bane of my own existence these [...]

By: VoIP Monitor .net

VoIP Monitor .net — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:57:23 +0000

Break from VoIP News and Rant on Spam…

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By: Ian Philip

Ian Philip — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:38:42 +0000

I’ve found the best way to deal with spam is white list filtering. This is where you only accept email from known senders, and it blocks over 99% of spam.

No matter how smart the spammers are, they can’t know the email addresses of all your friends!

Spammers rely on the fact that no filtering system is perfect, especially when their message is in an image. You can avoid having to read their lousy messages however, by reading your emails in text instead of html format.

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By: Bob Morris

Bob Morris — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:05:48 +0000

This post inspired me.

I’ve now forwarded all my other emails accounts to Google. This means all email 1) gets read in one place and 2) has ben spam-killed twice, at the originating server and by GMail. After a day, there’s practically no spam.

My blog thoughts on it

http://polizeros.com/2006/12/08/killing-spam/

By: Tom Keating

Tom Keating — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:52:14 +0000

Couldn't agree more Om. Something needs to be done. The SMTP protocol was designed to be flexible and allow email servers to easily pass email to each other, but it needs a major overhaul with some sort of unbreakable authentication scheme. Perhaps something like digital certificates through a trusted 3rd party (Verisign)

This is why I recently surrendered my 13 year old email address to the spammers. I surrender my email address to spammers

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:51:40 +0000

What I don't understand is that if no one ever acts on spam or pop-ups (as in buys something, clicks on their links, orders Viagra, etc.) spam and pop-ups should have died years ago. It must be working, so do we have only ourselves to blame?

By: Dave Nielsen

Dave Nielsen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:00:17 +0000

I have to agree with divendra … Cloudmark kicks butt! You can get Cloudmark’s Safetybar (Outlook & Outlook Express) thru its partnership with PayPal (free spoof protection forever, free spam protection for 30 days). Click here for more info http://www.cloudmark.com/paypal.

With Cloudmark, SpamArrest is a little overkill. But it does a great job too.

By: Social Infrastructure

Social Infrastructure — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:24:37 +0000

Email, the only killer app on the internet…

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By: Mike Steinbaugh

Mike Steinbaugh — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:12:37 +0000

Here’s an image spam fix for Mail.app (no SpamSieve required):
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/08/01/mailapp-rule-fix-for-image-spam/

You can also set a rule to filter e-mails with .gif attachments, since nobody e-mails gifs to each other.

The FuzzyOCR module for SpamAssassin works pretty well at reading image spam but spammers are getting increasingly sophisticated with colored/distorted images.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:38:20 +0000

Email has sucked for a long time even without spam. It traps info in an unusable way in your inbox. I think people also hide behind it.

By: Ab

Ab — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:59:02 +0000

I use fastmail and it does a decent job with its proactive filtering. It does get some false positives but since it's IMAP, just takes a click to sort it out.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:56:24 +0000

I would welcome all the email spam in the world if someone could figure out how to stop all the junk mail that shows in my real world mail box. i've called all the numbers, but it just seems like every time i even step into a new store, i get a damn catalog within 2 days.

it's a heck of a lot easier to just hit the delete button then it is to balance my bags, stop all mail from exploding out of my mail box as soon as i open it and then go through it all to figure out the 99% of it is complete garbage

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:54:38 +0000

Om, Gmail's spam filters have been causing a number of false positives for me recently. Having to perue spam everyday just to keep up is getting out of hand. Emails life is limited. I've been following push protocols being worked on including LLUP and SENA that may go a way to solving part of the problem. Identity and reputation services filling the rest of that gap.