Are You A Spam Zombie?

(Mon May 15th, 2006, by Niall Roche)

Over the past few years you've all become familiar with the terms spam, spam filter, whitelists, blacklists and a whole myriad of other terminology associated with the problem of spam. You now have to add a new and extremely worrying phrase to that l...

Spam

(Sun May 14th, 2006, by Jesse S. Somer)

Spam. You’ve all heard of the crazy pink meat in a can, but what’s it got to do with the Internet? Well, it’s also the namesake for a major problem in the World Wide Web-unsolicited junk email. Problem! We’re talking serious pain in the butt both as...

Why do we hate spam so much?

(Fri May 12th, 2006, by Linda Landry)

Why do we hate spam so much? By Linda Landry (c) Everyone agrees that spam is BAD! We obviously hate it because we named it SPAM. The garbage lunch meat packed in a can and made from leftover animal parts; the next thing to waste! Yes, I agree it is ...

Spam is no vegetable!

(Fri May 12th, 2006, by Shah N. Khan)

Spammers are like spiders coming from the World Wide Web and crawling in and on your mind, head, your body and spine. Many dictionaries do not give you the meaning of Spam. One dictionery defines it a a vegetable. The spell check in many word process...

What To Do When You Get Spam

(Thu May 11th, 2006, by Lewis Leake)

When you go to your mailbox and find pieces of junk mail mixed in with important correspondence, you throw it out. It is a mild nuisance and you probably don’t even give it a second thought. Unfortunately, most people do the same when spam arrives in...

AMATEUR SPAM COPS - HAVE THEY GONE TOO FAR ?

(Wed May 10th, 2006, by Darren Robinson)

You think spam is annoying ? Let me tell you a spam story that is beyond annoying and well past anger - and it isn't about receiving a few annoying advertisements in your Inbox. It's about a particular internet species whom I shall call amateur spam ...

The Economics of Spam

(Wed May 10th, 2006, by Sam Vaknin)

Tennessee resident K. C. "Khan" Smith owes the internet service provider EarthLink $24 million. According to the CNN, last August he was slapped with a lawsuit accusing him of violating federal and state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizati...

Spam

(Sat May 6th, 2006, by Richard Lowe)

A common way for spammers to create their vast lists of email addresses is to cull web pages for "mailto:" tags. There are many different programs, available for small to huge costs, which will do this automatically, easily and efficiently. I monitor...

Avoiding Spam, Scams and Computer Viruses

(Thu May 4th, 2006, by Garth Catterall-Heart)

One of the most popular pages on about-the-web.com is about avoiding scams, hoaxes and urban legends on the Internet (http://about-the-web.com/shtml/scams.shtml). Here are a few ways to avoid some of the perils associated with being connected to the ...

Un-Due Process - Part 2

(Tue May 2nd, 2006, by Elena Fawkner)

DUMB HOST OK, now let's turn to the real bad guy in all of this. The webhost who shuts down a website on the grounds of nothing more than the say-so of an unverified spam complaint. In my case, it's DumbHost but I know there are many other webhosts a...