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Simson Says: An End to Spam With SpamAssassin

(Mark's note: I've known Simson for a good many years, and have always admired his fine writing. When I was an editor at Wired, it always excited me to get one of his email pitches. He's a very intere... read more

Study: End Users Need More Anti-Spam Education

A study says ... Also on Spam at ENP Who Goes There? An End to the Spam War? CAN-SPAM in Effect? Mounting Spam Problems? Complacent Users Probably Aren't Helping Realtime Black-hole Lists: Heroic Spam ... read more

Getting to Know Apple Mail’s Spam Filter

Many ISPs use server-based spam filters such as SpamAssassin ... sent you, say, an article discussing the sorts of words that spammers often use, that might tip the scales. (This problem of overzealou... read more

Thunderbird: Mozilla’s Open-Source Email Client Lives

I say “most” because I use Thunderbird ... Then, there’s the mail I never want to see: Spam. While you still need a server-based spam filter such as SpamAssassin to clear out the junk, Thunderbird has ... read more

Setting up a secure private email server isn’t as hard as it sounds

Tech titans like Google, Apple, and Microsoft employ whole teams of experts who can focus all their time on fighting spam, hackers, and malware. All you have is...you. In the end, there's a ... perhap... read more

Spam Fighting: To Bounce or Not to Bounce?

Many sites find that once you get decent filtering in place and start identifying spam, a new problem that crops up is just a disconcerting: Deciding what to do with it. Software such as amavisd-new, ... read more

Defending ChunkyLover53

If ever there was a Sisyphean (or, should I say, WifePissyOffy-an ... Cut to now, where some clever internet hacker has somehow snagged the ChunkyLover53 AOL Instant Messager address, and is using it ... read more

Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail & everything after

You all have persevered through quite a bit to get to this point: we have a functional and secure e-mail server that does a good job at ignoring or dumping off spam before ... and not end up on one or ... read more

Winning AngelList

Michael Simpson also co-founded DJZ ... click the blue button on your profile that says ‘invest’. We have used this feature to raise money and found it highly effective, especially when you are near t... read more

7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media

Use a focused approach instead of flooding thousands of inboxes with spam. You want to brand yourself ... send you opportunities that are related to your blog content, so you end up happy in the end. ... read more

Did Nvidia hire an army of message-board sock-puppets?

It looks pretty grim for Nvidia: I hope that if they have something to say in their defense that they say it ... The final straw came via an infamous viral spam post about Ashlee Simpson just after he... read more

Frolic amid mai tais, Spam and tiki culture at the Bali Hai on San Diego Bay

The idea was to create a version of the English restaurant Simpson’s in the Strand ... irreverence and charm. Its proprietors say that it is the place “where nothing happens,” and yet it is where ever... read more