SpamAnti.net in August 2006

News of the world

French adminstration cites SpamAnti.net

French Ministry of Econmy and Finances cites SpamAnti.net in its revue de web.

ZeroSecurity

ZeroSecurity.com is a blog about computer security. It seems to have good content and its author is well-informed. Recommended if you consider yourself as over the general technical level (this is more for specialists).

Why SPAM is working?

If you ever wondered why, the answer may lie in the poll I exhumed from 2005. It tells it all: 11% of the Americain Internet users polled by Mirapoint and Radicati Group admitted they had bought something promoted through SPAM (a marketer's wet dream!).

To know if this was a good idea, just notice that 9% of the same users admit that they lost their money in such a consumer move (practically all those who accepted SPAM finally saw their money lost; I guess that the others were just too dumb to notice it)

News of SpamAnti.net

K9 efficiency

I use K9 as my only mail filtering tool. Here is a post I wrote about its efficiency on my blog.

The black list will stop soon

I intend to stop publishing the black list of spamming domains. I now consider that its usefulness dropped too low to be compared to statistical tools like K9 or POPfile (that you can find in my download page).

If you want to contact me about this issue (whether you want to convince me to keep it online or you'd like to provide some related information I missed), please, send me message.

18989 SPAMs in 10 days

It's just a matter of being away for vacations furing 10 days, and I found 18989 mail messages in one of my mail boxes. I don't have this many friends. It's 99.91% SPAM. Thanks for K9 and POPfile automated filters (see in the download section).

Nonetheless, it took me several hours just to download the full bunch of these emails onto my hard disk and to get them sorted by the software.

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