Archive for January, 2009

Bulk Mails from Email Providers

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Because a lot of spam mails now are coming from many countries, it is harder to fight them. Thus, email providers have added feature that conveniently pile unknown senders to the “bulk mail”.

Many email services now have “bulk-mail” baskets.How do they do this? The concept is simple.  If you know someone, they can send you emails.  If you don’t know them, put them in the bulk email pile and then “choose” to allow them into your circle.  Spam Blocking software has this concept as well, but having extra layers seems critical these days, so it is worth looking into.If the email service that you are using currently does not support this then maybe it’s time to change.

Fighting Spam Spiders

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Spam Spiders are spam softwares or “spambots” that crawl or serach the internet for email addresses to send unsolicited emails to. There are just too much trouble that these spam spiders bring to your inbox.
However, there is a site, WebPoison.org, which fights Internet “spambots” and “spam spiders”. It’s an open project that promises solution to these spamming. The sites gives the spambots bogus HTML web pages that also contain bogus email addresses.