Spam Fixation
Bob Frankston provides a very thoughtful article :Spam Fixation reinforcing the economics of attention and promoting (in my view) typical “tech views” about consumers who don’t think. There is lot’s of...
View ArticleSPAM Polls
I just read in the SF Chronicle this morning more research on SPAM. The research is all flawed. It assumes that the government or organizations or both should take some form of action. The questions...
View ArticleMusings – Rich Profiles
Tom Portante and I have held many conversations over the last few months, testing them, working them forward. He’s posts a collection of examples today. It’s a little long in this format. Note this....
View ArticleDigital Authentication Cures Spam?
A user centric approach to solving the spam problem using digital signatures from First Monday Giving E-mail back to the users by Trevor Tompkins and Dan Handley “This paper argues that current...
View ArticleComment Spam – Solution Wanted
Who can solve the COMMENT SPAM on MT and without turning off the comments? Please share with me. What I really think of these comment spammers is unprintable. There were two busy with my site this am....
View ArticleMT Comment Spam Solution
James Seng creates a brilliant MT hack that I hope STOPS COMMENT SPAM dead! I’ve just installed it and it works. Take a test drive with a comment to this post. I particularly want a few fellow...
View ArticleUpdate Comment Spam
I’ve been running James Seng’s last solution for a week. Now he’s got an even better one. I’ve not had time to try implementing it yet. I might just wait another week. Hope those “numbers” aren’t...
View ArticleBonded Future for E-Mail?
Interesting thoughts on the future of e-mail. See the link to Bonded Sender and the Economist article on this approach to putting a “price” on e-mail. VentureBlog: The Future of Email While people may...
View ArticleComment Spam
It is a shame to start a year complaining about comment spam. At least the numerical count was down today. I’ve really been hit in the last few days at a time when a couple of projects have compressed...
View ArticleThrottling Down – Comment Spam
I spent two hours today on additional spam countermeasures. It’s has become almost intolerable. I quickly caught the Many to Many comments last week. I’m not prepared to give up on comments and I stand...
View ArticlePC Cess Pools and DIYIT
I’m afraid that the enthusiasm for Decentralizing IT may just be the dream of some techies who want to choose their tools. Frankly if I walk round my neighborhood and look into the garages and check...
View ArticleUpgrading MT – Comment Spam
I am completely sick of comment spam. I recently upgraded to MT 3.14. However, had had little time to develop new templates to use the newer features. Plus after 2.5 years of generally adding and...
View ArticleMT-Templates New
It’s easy to see why so many love Typepads relatively easy to use stylesheet system. I’m not finished messing around here. While I’ve now got quite a portfolio of different templates and functions...
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Dear @comcastcares Please Explain XFinity Bot Scare Tactics
What does Comcast expect me to do? Why do they keep emailing (about once a week) me these messages (see below)? They are useless. They don’t tell me the time of the detection, what they detected, or...
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