Word: spamming
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...seen the end of this internal Internet boom economy. My advice to would-be webmasters of new projects: don’t do it! Or at least, try and pair up with someone who already has a site out there. The market is plenty crowded and I get enough spam as it is. Still, for the truly stubborn, note that the mantra “If you build it, they will come” simply doesn’t apply here. More than fancy photos or flash animations, more even than easy one-click credit card transactions, what Harvard students...
...LATELY SPAM E-MAIL HAS BECOME A REAL PAIN IN MY INBOX. IS THAT A BEATABLE PROBLEM? Yes, by and large it's beatable. It's going to take several years of work and industry partnerships and rolling out some new things. But between the things going on on the legal front and the technical front, absolutely...
...terms of authenticating e-mail. We call that caller ID for e-mail. We're making it so that somebody you exchange with regularly always gets passed through, and in the more exceptional case where it's a stranger, to make sure their mail is not confused with a spam e-mail. And we're making sure other people who do mail systems understand this so they can partner in and be part of the solution...
...been receiving more and more IMs like this, you're not alone. Yahoo reports that 2% of all IMs sent on its messenger service are spim, which is the new word for spam sent via instant messaging. A total of 582 billion IMs were sent worldwide in 2003, according to the Radacati Consulting Group?and that adds up to a whole lot of spim...
...While efforts to curb spam in e-mails have been progressing, the spim problem is just starting to explode. Ferris Research estimates that twice as much spim was sent in 2003 as in 2002. Though people receive far more spam than spim, spim has a special ability to be slightly more annoying. "It pops up and distracts you," says Casey McArdle, a graduate student in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who says he gets at least one spim a day on his computer. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete...