Spam

Postfix Postscreen to Increase Your SPF (Spam Protection Factor) - O'Reilly ...

By Kyle Dent

Postfix is about to add a new tool to the anti-spam arsenal called "postscreen" for now, but the name is likely to change before it goes into a production release. Among other things postscreen detects when a client starts talking before it's supposed to. It's a daemon that accepts connections ahead of the current SMTP daemon and provides various types of filtering based on the client connection.

[Publish Date: July 07, 2009]

Four short links: 25 December 2009 - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

One Billionth Spam Message Stats -- from the honeypot project comes a pile of stats about which countries spam, what they spam for, when they spam, etc. One intriguing insight our data provides is that bad guys take vacations too. For example, there is a 21% decrease in spam on Christmas Day and a 32% decrease on New Year's...

[Publish Date: December 25, 2009]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot - O'Reilly Radar

By Mark Drapeau

Web technologies often allow you to scale things that weren't scalable before. Unfortunately, that list of scalable things includes spam. From unsolicited phone calls to unwanted emails to unnecessary tweets, it can seem like we're getting progressively overloaded with information we don't necessarily want. One group blamed for the increase in online spam are Twitter bots - Twitter accounts created...

[Publish Date: July 07, 2009]

Speaker: Ian Gulliver: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

Ian has worked in the computing industry for over ten years at telecom giants and Internet startups. He founded and implemented an anti-spam blackhole list using MySQL that grew to be the most-queried on the Internet. Eventually, the pull of Google brought him to California, where he now works doing administration and development around Google's MySQL deployment.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Speaker: Jonah Stein: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Jonah Stein is the founder of Its The ROI (link: https://itstheroi.com,) a San Francisco Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing company. In 2007, he coined the term Virtual Blight to help web publishers understand the impact of Spam, scammers and other parasitic marketers on the value of web properties.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Cloud Tips: Sending Email from an EC2 Instance - O'Reilly Broadcast

By George Reese

Many email systems mark email coming from an SMTP server in the Amazon cloud as spam. As a result, you can't use traditional mail delivery techniques for sending out form submissions or program alerts from the cloud. In this cloud tip, I describe how you can successfully send legitimate email from an Amazon EC2 instance.

[Publish Date: January 16, 2009]

Brian McWilliams

Brian McWilliams is the author of Spam Kings and is an investigative journalist who has covered business and technology for web magazines including Wired News and Salon, as well as the Washington Post and PC World, Computerworld, and Inc. magazines.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Why is SPAM so hard to detect? - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By FJ de Kermadec

Whether you opt for the nerdy designation of SPAM, prefer politically correct euphemisms such as unwanted messages, favor Apple's designation of junk mails or even, as we crazy Frenchmen do, nickname them pourriels, you have most certainly had the joy of dealing with unwanted pieces of data mudding the stream of information you swim in online. It used to be...

[Publish Date: October 10, 2008]

What Google Knows About Spam: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 - Co-produced ...

By Matt Cutts

Keynote

[Publish Date: April 22, 2008]

Comments Back On; reCAPTCHA Wasn't At Fault - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

On Friday, we experienced a huge spike in comment spam on Radar. We turned off auto-publish for comments (they have since been turned back on). We incorrectly assumed that reCAPTCHA, one of the tools that we use to block, spam had been exploited. We were wrong (Sorry!). After my post we were contacted by the reCAPTCHA team and they...

[Publish Date: January 28, 2008]

Speaker: Carl Mercier: MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 - Co-presented by MySQL ...

Carl Mercier is a serial technology entrepreneur and developer from Montreal, Canada. He is currently the founder and CEO of Karabunga Inc., the company behind Defensio.com, a new spam filtering web service for social applications. Defensio has attracted significant interest from worldwide blogger and developer communities and has exhibited superior filtering performance. Carl also spearheads Montreal on Rails, a developer community group that brings together local Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for monthly gatherings. Prior to founding Karabunga, Carl started Adonis Technologies, a company that built advanced management software for the tourism & recreation industry. It was acquired in 2006. Carl holds degrees in business management and sound engineering.

[Publish Date: April 14, 2008]