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March 11, 2007
Antisocial Networking: Dealing with Online Abuse

There are lots of antisocial networking techniques out there, from spam to phishing. Explore what they are, how it all works, and how are you contributing to all the mess in this presentation from SXSW.

May 25, 2006
Simplicity, Web Standards, and Spam

Thoughts on the internet, email, and web standards, from a Steve Champeon presentation at Webstock.

February 4, 2005
From Zombies to Smarthosts - the Spam War Escalates

Where does spam come from? We've all asked ourselves this question. A cadre of systems administrators, who are actively trying to preserve this incredibly important communications channel, have invested a great deal of time into understanding the problem. Learning how to read email "headers" in order to trace spam to its senders, blocking abusive mail servers and other sources, and so on - has given us some interesting insights over the years. Lately, however, the spammers have begun to escalate their attempts to ensure delivery of their unsolicited ads for illegal (and dubious) pharmaceuticals, porn, and virtually everything else. The United Nations estimates over 70% of all mail sent on the Internet is spam, and it's getting worse.

July 20, 2003
Making Mincemeat of Spam

Are we truly the society of overweight, sexually challenged, gambling, class reunion addicts with a penchant for Nigerian philanthropy that our spam makes us out to be? Well, of course not. But it would be difficult to argue against upon reviewing the inboxes of the emailing population who receive anywhere from 11 to 100 spam emails each day and then spend another hour and a half each week to get rid of them. And it's only getting worse. According to Gartner Inc. analyst Joyce Graff, "by 2004, unless an enterprise takes defensive action, more than 50% of its message traffic will be spam."