{"id":26,"date":"2003-10-23T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:33:23","slug":"the_global_spam_fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/10\/23\/the_global_spam_fight.php","title":{"rendered":"The Global Spam Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of welcome items in the news in this week regarding Spam.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo<\/a> introduced a feature where users can create <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.com.com\/2100-1038-5094171.html\">unique email addresses<\/a> that can be disabled later on.  Hot on the heels of this announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotmail.com\/\">Hotmail<\/a> has announced plans to introduce a <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.com.com\/2100-1032_3-5095720.html\">White List<\/a> for users.<br \/>\nOn a larger scale the US Senate has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/6\/33556.html\">passed a bill<\/a> that promises to get tough on spam, the bill is a good start but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Reg<\/a> mentions some concerns with this bill.<br \/>\nOn my own little system I have introduced a black list that blocks mail at SMTP time to blacklisted recipients this has kept about 2000 spam messages from entering my box this month, a very welcome change.  This was made easy by my reporting module for <a href=\"http:\/\/iscan.sf.net\/\">iScan<\/a> that puts detailed meta information about all mail handled by my machine into a SQL server, using this I can track down big spam recipients and trends and target those with specific fixes or safe guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of welcome items in the news in this week regarding Spam. Yahoo introduced a feature where users can create unique email addresses that can be disabled later on. Hot on the heels of this announcement Hotmail has announced plans to introduce a White List for users. On a larger scale the US Senate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}