He has been blamed for being behind "unprecedentedly serious attacks" on non-profit anti-spam watchdog Spamhaus.
The only real solution, most anti-spam advocates agree, is to remove spammers' financial incentive.
But most of those PCs are likely controlled by spam-sending cyber-criminals, not foreign militaries.
Page administrators can then go through and unmark as spam those comments that were wrongfully hidden.
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"Even the SEC spam filter can't stop this, " Cox acknowledged in the press conference Thursday.
We are not in the interest of spamming, or promoting or endorsing spam content.
This is not anonymous spam, which actually constitutes the majority of what ails my inbox.
Social spam is growing as attacks launched via traditional email come-ons appear to be declining.
Best of all, it's a vast improvement on antiquated listservs that start to feel like spam.
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The benefits of eliminating spam and saving face are just as valuable, the company argues.
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One of the firm's cash cows is software that finds spam servers and blocks their transmissions.
MarkMonitor's study analyzed 2, 986 sites hawking major pharmaceutical brands pulled from its pool of spam e-mails.
No spam, no selling products or services, no free advertising for your own blog.
By deploying anti-spam measures at the server level most of the bad emails have been captured.
He said this would discourage spam and not have much impact on the typical Internet user.
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"These activities show Mimail's primary purpose is for spam and fraud, " says Joe N.
The new NT version of Sendmail, like its Unix counterpart, includes strong spam-blocking capabilities.
And it is not just due to the scourge of spam, viruses and cyber crime.
Tangents include spam, blatant ads for services, and all manner of ad hominem claptrap.
The weak link that has allowed robots to turn Webmail into a spam hose?
Over the past year, the volume of spam e-mail from Web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo!
While Brunner insists that he himself doesn't spam, his software lets others do it.
Over the last decade, the FTC has brought over 100 spam and spyware cases.
The result was finding 1733 of the over 5842 requests were classified as spam.
Hitting delete results in the spam taking a deadly swim in shark infested waters.
Your spam manager acts a gatekeeper, only allowing through genuine messages to lounge by the pool.
In part, Facebook says some of the tension comes from its efforts to curb spam.
If too many users report spam from an app, Facebook will restrict its distribution.
Since last year when Facebook began a major push to squash spam complaints about spam have dropped 90%.
If a message received had a lot of spam patterns in it, it was scored highly.
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