Tag Archives: spammers

User accounts removed

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Steven Fisher

I originally required registration to comment to cut down on spam, before Akismet was easy to use. It was a crappy requirement, who wants to register with a random blog just to leave a comment? So I turned it off, … Continue reading →

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McAfee experiment: Sex life unchanged, but inbox bulging

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Steven Fisher

Interesting Ars Technica article on spam: From April 1 to May 1, McAfee ran an experiment with 50 volunteers designed to measure just how much spam a person would receive if they actually registered at all the sites that request … Continue reading →

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Email approaching Sturgeon's limit

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Steven Fisher

On average, spam accounted for 87% of e-mail traffic this year.

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