59 posts tagged  Spam Filters

As a reaction to the growing problem of text spam, T-Mobile has added phone number-level blocking to its My T-Mobile service. The service allows you to add filters to incoming messages and prevent certain numbers from sending SMSes or emailing your @tmomail address.

Yahoo is soon to start accepting Sender Score Certified via Return Path! Yahoo using Sender Score Certified whitelist and Return Path was quietly made public in January 2008, “Yahoo! is implementing the scheme and will begin checking using it sometime in spring.” We have not heard much since.

I don’t even know what to say about this except I’m glad I won’t be on his e-mail list: President Bush reveals that when he finally leaves the White House, the first thing he'll do is resume E-mailing his buddies.

Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides effective tools for detecting junk mail.

MySpace has won a legal battle, against spammers Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, according to an AP report. The battle ended in a $234 million judgment by a Las Angles court, ruling against some of the most notable spammers, thanks to their antics on popular social networking site MySpace, and even some massive spamming campaigns throughout the 1990s.

It is estimated that about 3.3 billion people were cell phone subscribers in November 2007. It is not unreasonable to assume that cell phones may be one of the most influential inventions of the past century. And until recently, it was one of the last forms of communication free of advertisements and solicitations.

Stop Spam Posted in May 11th, 2008 by admin in spam blocker Spam has become a major nuisance to e-mail users and computer technology experts. Sending irrelevant and inappropriate messages, basically for advertising purposes is a bane on the Internet.

Mozilla beta 1.4 and 1.3.1 May 11th, 2008 Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla is a cousin to Netscape Communicator that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape.

Probably one of the mainstays on the Internet has always been email marketing. Is email marketing dead though? I guess alot of that depends on who you ask. Many marketers are reporting that email marketing is dead. Now I don’t know about that, but one thing for sure it sure has changed over the last few years.

Google has goofed. INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has created proof, which uncovers a “trust hierarchy” that exists between e-mail and the servers they travel through.   INSERT successfully sent out 4000 messages from a Gmail account in a relatively short period of time, much like spammers.