SpamAnti.net in August 2008

News of the SPAM world

The true reason behind SPAM

Did you wonder why SPAM exists? Stop wondering. A study from Marshall showed that 29% of the polled Internet users admit they bought something from a SPAM message.

Spammers are right: The more they stuff our mailboxes, the bigger their turnover.

The solution: Never buy from these "offers".

SPAM: tags cloud

Thomas Hawk took the 100 most recent SPAM messages received in his email. He sevred them into a tag-cloud generator (Wordle). The result? An interesting tag cloud:

An image for your address

You want to publish your email address without risking to see it grabbed by some spammer's robot. It is as easy as using an image instead of the usual text in the post of your blog.

It does not work for Google, Yahoo and other major web sites. Hackers are ready to write a specific character recognition software to hit them. But for a reasonably small web site like yours or mine...

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Buy the encyclopaedia

The encyclopédie du courrier électronique et du SPAM (encyclopaedia of electronic mail and SPAM) is written in French, listed in alphabetic order. It defines words, lists products, technologies, etc. and gives some useful advice. But in French!

This bible of email knowledge (more than 200 pages, 8.26" x 11.69") can now be purchased on line at a very reasonnable price.

You'll get a book perfectly bound and able to serve you as a reference and easy to transport and read.

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