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Magnolia will restrict signups to only OpenID users In an effort to block SPAM. But Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame says, "At best this is a Club solution, meaning it?ll be effective as long as Magnolia is not a worthwhile enough target or not enough people use the technique. Anyone advocating that a Yahoo, Google, or AOL account is going to stop spam signups, sploggers, or anything of the sort is out of touch with the dark side of the internet." Read the comments as well. Saved By: jeffrey zeldman | View Details | Give Thanks
Defensio - Outsmarting Evil Spam

Simply put, having to deal with comment spam on your blog is annoying, offensive and unproductive. "Something must be done!", you say? We agree. We've built a comment spam filter to get the spam problem under control: We call it Defensio. Defensio improves accuracy: fewer spammy comments will get through to your blog and fewer real comments will be incorrectly blocked. Defensio makes managing spam a breeze: sorting through your quarantine is made simple through a smart ranking system and a condensed, efficient viewing mode. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
A List Apart: Articles: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation

My solution would need to defeat spam and be accessible. We work intensely with and for people who have (mostly visual) disabilities. Accessibility is not an optional add-on. Saved By: Brad Siegfreid | View Details | Give Thanks
Alleged spam mogul Robert Alan Soloway was arrested on Wednesday after being indicted by a federal grand jury.
As spam sites multiply, online businesses are learning that the Web's god is a vengeful god.
The spam deluge has been drenching e-mail inboxes for years, but in 2007 the Internet cloud looks set to unleash a flood of downright biblical proportions. New research from IDC claims that this will be the year in which spam outnumbers person-to-person e-mail for the first time. Anyone have a spare ark handy?
Spam may make Trackback completely unusable. A good idea unable to keep up with a dedicated cabal of spammers, or is there any hope?
New study finds spammers now focus on health-related products and general product pitches.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a step toward combating stock spam, the unsolicited bulk e-mail message that promotes cheap stocks for quick profits, which usually prove illusory.
There's still plenty of spam going around, but "adult" spam has been on a steady decline and hit an all-time low in February, according to a new Symantec report.
Have a look at the graph based on the number of site-mail messages I received before and after the limitation on 'message all friends' was placed, and it becomes abundantly clear that Netscape's efforts are succeeding.
The reason? Based on a conversation I had with Digg founder Kevin Rose recently, Digg thinks they are winning the war over the problem of "grouping" behavior (where groups of Digg accounts are controlled or effectively controlled by a person or group and can push stories to the home page).
StayFriends | Die Freunde-Suchmaschine

Wonder where all your time went? Into deleting your unwanted spam e-mails.According to a new study by McAfee Security, 49 percent of Americans spend at least 40 minutes a week just deleting spam -- and 14 percent spend at least 3.5 hours at their terminal terminating the unwanted e-mails.
AVG Free Advisor: Installation files & document...

Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet. The web hosting and monitoring firm believes the recent earthquake that hit Taiwan in late December may be responsible for a reduction in spam and virus rates for January, although a monstrous 53.12 per cent of emails were spam - above last year's av
This is a collaborative protection system against disposable email addressing (DEA).
Captchator - Captcha service for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, ...

A sweet simple captcha service that requires no server install such as imagemagick or freeimage.
Spam, Be Gone

In a move reminicent of del.icio.us before Yahoo! bought it, Ma.gnolia's installed Akismet to help filter out spam. Have I mentioned my hatred of spam?









