Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-31:	Look at your pull-based system for things that push
2009-12-07:	Why whitelists (and blacklists) are long-term poison for online systems
2009-11-20:	Spam and the attraction of reach
2009-11-19:	The corollary for effective anti-spam heuristics
2009-10-22:	The limits of some anti-spam precautions
2009-10-14:	Why 'invite-your-friends' features are spam from you, not your users
2009-09-30:	On (not) putting IP addresses in registration email
2009-09-27:	Some suggestions for registration confirmation emails Why you can no longer have an 'invite-your-friends' feature
2009-09-14:	Forwarding emails without false positives
2009-08-24:	Anti-spam content scanning systems need to scan more
2009-08-12:	One thing your mail-sending system should do
2009-07-28:	Spammers are quite dedicated in their address scraping
2009-07-20:	Minimalistic spam, another annoyance to worry about
2009-06-21:	Email is intrusive, and why
2009-06-14:	How to set up your vacation messages to get thrown off mailing lists
2009-05-24:	What modern email is good for
2009-05-16:	Autoresponders in the modern email world
2009-04-10:	Why 'sender stores message' is easier for spammers than real mail servers
2009-04-07:	The technical problems with 'sender stores messages' schemes
2009-03-19:	Why 'sender stores message' schemes won't cure phish spams
2009-03-18:	Principles of email in the modern age
2009-02-27:	The peculiar case of the conference spammers
2009-02-19:	Appearances are deceptive in the (anti-)spam world
2009-01-05:	Why 'email marketing' winds up as spam
2009-01-04:	'Email marketing' versus outright email spam

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