Topic

Spam

202 published works

Tom Mighell April 5, 2003
Poetic Justice?
By Tom Mighell
Back in August I mentioned a new anti-spam tool called Habeas. This utility places a trademarked haiku poem into an e-mail header, which allows the e-mail to pass through spam filters unmolested.…
The Trademark Blog April 4, 2003
Use Haikus to Enlarge Your Spam Filter!
By Marty Schwimmer
Habeas sells an anti-spam solution consisting of a copyrighted and trademarked Haiku. The Haiku must be appended to an email in order to pass through a Habeas spam filter. Thus…
Tom Mighell March 25, 2003
More on MailBlocks
By Tom Mighell
Yesterday I mentioned MailBlocks, a service that promises to rid your Inbox of spam. However, according to this article from LawMeme, MailBlocks requires you to "opt in" to the Service by providing…
Tom Mighell March 24, 2003
End spam FOREVER
By Tom Mighell
A new start-up company wants to permanently end spam, and has a new program called MailBlocks. When the software intercepts an e-mail from an unknown source, it sends an e-mail to…
Tom Mighell March 20, 2003
Speaking of e-mail…
By Tom Mighell
PC World asks the question, why are you getting so much spam?. The article highlights a study from the Center for Democracy and Technology, and provides some good (if basic) recommendations on…
Tom Mighell February 18, 2003
The War on Spam
By Tom Mighell
PC World features yet another article on how e-mail users are fed up with spam. Really?
Tom Mighell February 10, 2003
More on spam
By Tom Mighell
James Gleick provides a lengthy report on the spam epidemic. It's a pretty good article, but he's a little behind on one item: he spends some time discussing SpamAssassin, which no…
Tom Mighell February 7, 2003
Speaking of spam…
By Tom Mighell
Those wily spammers are figuring out ways to get around spam filters -- creative punctuation. (Warning: contains adult subject matter) (Via LawMeme)
Tom Mighell February 4, 2003
What? Spam is a problem?
By Tom Mighell
InfoWorld has a lengthy article on current efforts to combat spam.
LawSites January 14, 2003
Make money at home suing spammers!
By Robert Ambrogi
Peter wants you to sue spammers, so much so that he has set up a Web site to help, called, of course, Sue Spammers. He won a judgment for $580…