Innocent Bystanders (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
I have a bone to pick with you. Your inerrant, unreliable, inconsistent willingness to solve non-problems. You know who I am, it’s easily looked up through your records. Your goddamn spam filter thing has a hole in it, and despite your half-hearted efforts, it’s still fucked up. Still. Fucked. Up. The poster in question, a dear friend of us all, [...]
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls (IKM Pros) have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec. And now IKM pros with deep Symantec relationships have a simple choice: Keep...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
My buddy Dries Buytaert (inventor of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia) and Benjamin Schrauwen have removed the beta label from their Mollom project. With the move, their startup is very much shaping up to be serious competition to Automattic’s Akismet, the current market leader. Mollom automatically blocks comment form spam, contact form spam and fake user accounts [...]
Ferris Research (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime. First create a free GMail account if you do not have one already. Configure your corporate email account to forward all your emails to your free GMail account. For Linux based mail [...]
PHP Developper (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Padraic Brady has posted part ten in his series on the construction of a blogging system with the Zend Framework. This part of the series focuses on the commenting system and using a reCAPTCHA and Akismet system on it to prevent spam. Blogs all have two other features besides actual content. They allow readers to post comments, and they offer XML feeds of their content. With the blog application itself...
ProBlogger (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
I love Akismet - it's a WordPress tool that has literally saved me months of work. It has blocked 4,059,113 comment spams on ProBlogger alone over the last year or two - something that I will be forever grateful for! However every day or two I get an email like this: “I have been trying to leave [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
NASHUA, NH (MARKET WIRE) QED Connect, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: QEDC), an innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for the information security market, has expanded its recently announced three-year contract with Massachusetts-based Clinton Public Schools to include a second three-year contract for e-mail filtering services. The district currently has QED's Internet safety and monitoring solution,...
OYAX (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Common uses for mail filters include removal of spam and of computer viruses. ... Some more advanced filters, particularly anti-spam filters, ...
CyberNet (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
One of the great things about the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is that it has an extension system much like it’s browser counterpart Firefox. Because of this Thunderbird users can really benefit from features created by developers around the world, and a great example of this is with the Seek extension. Seek actually capitalizes on an [...]
SBWire Press Releases (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
MailFoundry, the world's smartest anti-spam solution, has released an update to its MessageIQ anti-spam engine, increasing its capabilities against the latest spam, phishing and hacker email threats.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
FYI… The Akismet spam filter has been a bit over-aggressive lately, particularly with regards to politically-theme comments. If your comment does not show up, it's either in moderation (any comment with a link automatically goes into moderation) or the Akismet filter caught it. I’ll get the comment up as soon as I can.
WordPress Themes (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Akismet, the anti-spam plugin / tool we all know and depend on to filter millions of spam each day is being used to censor certain bloggers. Recently, someone or a group of people blacklisted my online-moniker, Small Potato. I know this because my comment (on my own blog) is listed on the Akismet Spam list. This [...]
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Filed under: Utilities , Blogging , Web services , Freeware , Social Software , web 2.0 If you've had a blog for any length of time, you've probably been assaulted with blog comment spam. Users of WordPress have the fantastic Akismet spam filtering tool freely available to them by Automattic, the makers of WordPress. But while Akismet is good (really good), it's not perfect. If you have been using...
WordPress.com Blog (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
We’ve got two improvements to the Akismet interface for you guys today. The first is on the spam screen, there are now tabs that filter by what type of spam it is, namely a comment, pingback, or trackback. This allows you to scan more quickly through pingbacks and trackbacks, especially. (Remember that just because it's linking [...]
