Posts Tagged ‘spam’

MIPspace.com an Over Zealous Spam Black List

I have been having trouble communicating with several clients and potential clients in my local area. I checked my mail-server error log and found the problem. A local ISP warwick.net uses “Magic Mail” which in turn uses MIPspace block list (black list) as an email filter. I run a small dedicated or VPS server with [...]

Don’t Spam me Bro

I started publishing the culprits of spam on my spammer-log page. It started with email spam that was getting through my Postini filters. However, Postini is so good, there is hardly any spam to report from my email. But my blog is getting spammed now through the back channels. I don’t know how they do [...]

Twitter: a Spammer’s Paradise

Do you tweet? Ok… for the uninitiated this means, “do you use Twitter.com?”. Well, if you do, new reports indicate that with a few clicks of the mouse a spammer can harvest thousands of email addresses from the mini-blogging service. One developer noted, “You can sit and just watch the email addresses steadily trickle in… [...]