Notes"Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."Unfurl
Notes"Corpse graffiti, a form of emergence, is created by building a character with a clever name, i.e. "Mailbox" and dropping dead in a contextually-appropriate location, i.e. a mailbox in a high-traffic area."Unfurl
Notes"The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales--an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using cliUnfurl
Notes"IM2000 is a project to design a new Internet mail infrastructure around the following concept: Mail storage is the sender's responsibility."Unfurl
Notes"That's all folks. The door has officially closed on email marketing. Maybe this will drive more companies to start up opt-in RSS feeds and blogs that facilitate dialogue."Unfurl
Notes"I'm using mod_security because my server has lots of different blogging tools installed, and there's no way to centrally protect them all. This won't take care of all comment or trackback spam, but I'm hoping it will greatly reduce the amount we get. AlsUnfurl
Notes"And what is to stop a mistake happening and the wrong number going on the list?" Hmm, ugh. Okay, I've been using the screensaver, but now this worries me: A counter tactic for spammers might be to randomly include other URLs in emails. How does LycosUnfurl
Notes"This paper proposes a new and currently very effective method of enhancing the abilities of mail systems to limit the amount of spam that they receive and deliver to their users."Unfurl
NotesI can't read French, but apparently, this is a comment form implemented in Flash so as to throw a monkey wrench into spamming. Interesting, but misguided. Maybe even goes further toward allowing spammers to automate.Unfurl
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Charlie's Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist