Comments on: How Much Time Do We Waste On Spam? http://robbsutton.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-on-spam/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:15:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ti22http://robbsutton.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-on-spam/#comment-471 Ti22 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:54:01 +0000 http://robbsutton.com/?p=2127#comment-471 Being involved in the security industry, SPAM is a money market for both the offenders and the defenders. A common practice seen on many blogs and web sites is to use the name@domain dot com format to list an email address. This does not work and usually insults the intelligence of the spammer. They have scripts to reformat these pitiful attempts at email address fuzzing. Products manufacturers like Barracuda market their products as SPAM stoppers, but they really don't reduce the amount of traffic which is the main underlying problem. SPAM experts are really intelligent people, but unfortunately have their priorities out of order. It would be interesting if IANA and core router controllers blocked off Russia for one day to see how much SPAM traffic dropped. Being involved in the security industry, SPAM is a money market for both the offenders and the defenders. A common practice seen on many blogs and web sites is to use the name@domain dot com format to list an email address. This does not work and usually insults the intelligence of the spammer. They have scripts to reformat these pitiful attempts at email address fuzzing. Products manufacturers like Barracuda market their products as SPAM stoppers, but they really don’t reduce the amount of traffic which is the main underlying problem. SPAM experts are really intelligent people, but unfortunately have their priorities out of order. It would be interesting if IANA and core router controllers blocked off Russia for one day to see how much SPAM traffic dropped.

]]> By: Marc (FlatLander) Audethttp://robbsutton.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-on-spam/#comment-470 Marc (FlatLander) Audet Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:01:44 +0000 http://robbsutton.com/?p=2127#comment-470 AMEN! to you Rob and Mike too. I don't have the time to waste on spam comments and checking websites to know which comments in my spam folder may actually be a valid reader of my blog.Today I also had to unfollow someone because she changed her avatar. I tweeted her a couple days ago and told her they may fe fine but I didn;t want to see her holing her breasts on every tweet. She left the new avatar so I have dropped her. AMEN! to you Rob and Mike too. I don’t have the time to waste on spam comments and checking websites to know which comments in my spam folder may actually be a valid reader of my blog.

Today I also had to unfollow someone because she changed her avatar. I tweeted her a couple days ago and told her they may fe fine but I didn;t want to see her holing her breasts on every tweet. She left the new avatar so I have dropped her.

]]> By: Mikehttp://robbsutton.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-on-spam/#comment-469 Mike Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:27 +0000 http://robbsutton.com/?p=2127#comment-469 The thing that really bothers me about spam now is that I'm losing messages that I want to read. Innocent emails and comments on my blog are ending up in the spam folder now. The thing that really bothers me about spam now is that I’m losing messages that I want to read. Innocent emails and comments on my blog are ending up in the spam folder now.

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