Posts Tagged ‘spam’

Confessions of a Spam-Catcher: How to Identify Spam

As part of my role as Lifehack’s manager, I am responsible for moderating the comments queue. Lifehack’s back-end has a “Pending” queue for comments that our spam-catching software thinks might be spam, a “Spam” queue for comments labeled “spam” either by the software or by me, and another queue for comments that have been approved, again either by the software or by me. As a general rule, I check… Continue reading

January 18 2010 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, comment, spam, webmaster, website, writing | 18 comments»

How to Spam

In my last post, I talked about how to get the most out of social media sites and services like Digg, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Entirely coincidentally, Thursday Bram write a post about marketing yourself shortly after.Unfortunately, any medium that makes itself so easy to use to promote yourself as today’s social media also makes it easy for idiots, jerks, and scam artists to promote themselves. As the… Continue reading

August 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: conversation, etiquette, marketing, promotion, spam | 10 comments»

Six Spam Filters for your Mac

Joe Kissell at EarthWeb.com has put together a good list of 6 programs Mac users can get to know if spam is becoming a problem. 1) Em@ilCRXPrice: $30Pros: Blacklist, whitelist, regular expression matching; image spam filtering; several other filtering options. Cons: No Bayesian filter; no IMAP support; no direct integration with email clients; cluttered interface; poor documentation.2) JunkMatcherPrice: Free (donations accepted)Pros: Bayesian filter; regular expressions; wide variety… Continue reading

April 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: mac, macintosh, spam | 2 comments»

Turn Junk eMail Into Treasure

Your spam folder is probably filled with tonnes of promotional offers that promise all sorts of free gear. All you have to do in return is click through their promotions, complete a short survey, and/or participate in a free trial. Baloney right?Actually, you can get that free stuff! CleverDude.com shows us how; and it's no scam - probably.

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March 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: email, free, shopping, spam | 5 comments»

30 Disposable Email Services

Many times you need an email address to register an account online but you don't want to get spammed - What should you do? There are services called Disposable Email Services, which they provide you a temporary email address for register accounts. The emails will be forwarded to your real address. This way you do not need to exposure your real address, so you will be worry free on spam.Listible… Continue reading

March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: email, service, spam | 5 comments»