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I interrupt my series on Backscatter spam to announce two anniversaries of mine. Today, July 12, is my four-year anniversary of working for Frontbridge, which later became Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services. I started off as a spam analyst, doing
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A friend of mine sent me this link to a spoof of a 70's type B-movie starring a spammer, or rather, how to get a spammer. I thought it was clever.
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I first started actively fighting spam in 2004. In the beginning we were dealing exclusively with English language spam but only a couple of months later we expanded our tool set to include support for foreign languages. Foreign language spam differs
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One of my favorite fiction writers is Michael Crichton. His books often center around technology and how when humans try to control or influence the physical environment, things go awry. In Jurassic Park, humans recreated dinosaurs and attempted
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Over the past weekend, I got a mysterious phone call left on my work number. It went like this: "Hi, my name is Guy Incognito with XGG . When you have time, please give me a call back at 123-456-7890." I have changed the name
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Alleged spammer Robert Soloway's trial will start next month in Seattle. From Computerworld : Soloway was arrested in May and charged with sending out tens of millions of unsolicited messages; so many, in fact, that investigators called him the "Spam
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Kudos to Symantec for coming up with this 12 Days of Christmas Spam song. Very clever. It's going to be very tough to top this.
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Last week, I was watching the season finale of the second season of Heroes. It's not technically the season finale, but with the Hollywood writer's strike, they finished off the first part of the season until new episodes could be written. Anyhow,
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In my other post, I mentioned that I missed my chance to see a famous American politician visit the Microsoft campus. Well, it turns out that it happened again! This morning, I came to work and was meeting some people in the hallway around 10 am and I
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This morning I had the distinct "pleasure" of getting spam in my inbox that was pumping the services of Spamhaus. Here's an excerpt: WORKING TO PROTECT INTERNET NETWORKS WORLDWIDE Spamhaus tracks the Internet's Spammers, Spam Gangs and Spam Services,
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I notice quite often that when people refer to spam (either inside our company or on the outside), they often say "SPAM." This has often confused me because as far as I know, SPAM is not an acronym and doesn't stand for anything, it's only slang for Unsolicited
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I came across an interesting page from Microsoft Research. In it, they talk about a new technique for a human interactive proof. To save you the trouble of looking this up if you don't know, a human interactive proof is a task that humans need to perform
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I read a few other anti-spam blogs. There really are some good ones out there so I thought I'd share my top three. Al Iverson's Spam Resource - This is perhaps my favourite blog because the author, Al Iverson, so frequently has interesting information
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I was unable to find compatible blogging software for my Mac to post on my MSDN blog (ie, this one). So, when I'm working on my Mac I have to log in to the site and write the post. That's not such a big deal, except that Mac software and this MSDN blog
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A reader sent me this link, it's a video of a new Pepsi commercial where they turn the city of San Francisco into a pinball machine. As the subject line says, it's pretty cool.
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