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Bulletproof spam hosting services (ie, internet service providers that will host your site and ignore spam complaints) are one of the techniques that spammers use to put up spam sites. Knowing that their provider will never take them down, they
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I'm always the last spam blogger to comment on these legal cases. I'll continue in that tradition by throwing in my two cents. SpamSuite has a copy of the ruling which is only seven pages long. Some highlights from the document: Plaintiff
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Originally from Yahoo Finance : BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union fined Microsoft Corp. a record $1.3 billion Wednesday for the amount it charges rivals for software information. EU regulators said the company charged "unreasonable prices"
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If you're a stock trader at all, it'll come as no surprise to you that over the past three months we've been in a correction. If the definition of a bear market is a drop of 20%, then from peak to trough we have seen a bear market in the Nasdaq.
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This post isn't all that spam-related, but I think it's an important topic because it represents a fundamental trend. I've always said (well, I say it sometimes), that if I wasn't involved in the anti-spam industry, other than the stock trading arena,
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In what is starting to sound like a broken record, one of my favorite companies, Google, is being abused by spammers - again. First we found spam blogs in Blogspot, then we found spam coming from Gmail users, and now I have found a third abuse - spammers
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Before being bought out by Microsoft, a lot of my co-workers bought stuff from Apple (mostly mac laptops, but also iMacs). I recently bought an iBook second hand, but in my team of 8 people, 4 have bought new Macbooks in the past 4 months. A few people
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I was going over some of my stock charts last night when I thought to myself "Could the amount of spam hitting my inbox be used as an indicator of which way the market is going to move?" In stock speculation, there are two types of indicators - confirmation
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In the past week or so, I have been getting quite a bit of spam in my Gmail account. It's not image spam, it's stock spam. I blogged a few months ago that Gmail was allowing lots of spam through (no pun intended) but that may have been because an email
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I had to modify the contents of this post. Move along, move along.
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Earlier this month I made a New Year's Resolution, that I'm going to learn to use unix a little bit better. Well, so far I've made some good progress as in the past week I have been starting to get used to the sed command. I find it quite handy; how did
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This post isn't spam-related, but Microsoft-related. I was watching Mad Money today and Cramer was giving his top 3 growth stock picks for 2007. I very rarely buy stock picks after Cramer recommends them but I do listen to his reasoning because he does
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I was going to write a post on the story that Cisco just bought IronPort, but Richi Jennings beat me to it. :) I was an employee of Frontbridge Technologies when Microsoft bought us in July 2005. A year earlier, Symantec bought Brightmail. CipherTrust
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On Friday, Microsoft stock had a golden cross. A golden cross is when a stock's 50-day moving average crosses its 200-day moving average from below. This is usually interpreted as a positive sign for the stock. Conversely, a death cross is when a stock's
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I just did a search for the topic of stock spam and it turns out that there is a noticeable effect of stock spam and the price of the stock. You can find an article here or another one here . The results, however, are just what I expect - investors who
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