Song: Witty Take on Spam - I’ve Got Mail

June 23rd, 2008 Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google. You have received spam from GMail user in your GMail account This one is simple to address.

March 2nd, 2009 I got this interesting spam in my comments today: Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugandf What do I do? I figured someone who can stoop so low as to spam is not likely to donate his ill-gotten wealth.

February 10th, 2004 Goodmail - Index "Senders of volume email attach paid stamps to their outgoing messages. These encrypted stamps include verification of the sender's identity and require the sender to honor a "trusted unsubscribe" mechanism enforced by Goodmail Systems.

November 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.

December 18th, 2004 A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)

November 27th, 2006 In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM.

July 21st, 2007 My favorite quote and song from Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows. The song has a spoiler.

November 7th, 2005 Under the UK's Computer Misuse Act, denial of service attack isn't apparently a crime. A British teenager has been recently cleared of launching a denial-of-service attack against his former employer.

December 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.

December 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).

April 1st, 2005 Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages.

April 20th, 2006 The US and China are competing for leadership as the top spam relaying countries. This is a leadership which I am sure US wouldn't mind relinquising and it is improving.

September 13th, 2006 I have to warn you that the song is not suitable for minors, (some) republicans and prudes. It is NSFW if you use speakerphones to listen at work.

February 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.

February 12th, 2005 I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog or splog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam.