Email rejections
The bulk email I mentioned in this earlier post didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped. The cut-and-pasted encoded PDF attachment—the main topic of the post—was fine, but several of the messages were...
View ArticleMy continuing battle with Akismet
Here’s an update on my inability to leave comments on most WordPress blogs. Shorter version: I’m still being screwed by Akismet. Longer version… After that last post, Matthew McVickar—who’s becoming a...
View ArticleReleased from Akismet prison on a technicality
(For background see this post and this one. Nutshell: Akismet, the spam filter for WordPress blogs, has for weeks been blocking me from commenting on WP blogs other than my own. My attempts to get...
View ArticleMy own code used against me?
Despite my battles with Akismet on other sites last year, I’ve always appreciated the good job it does of fending off comment spam here. Not only does it keep almost all the spam out of the comments,...
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Fighting Twitter spam in Dr. Twoot
Twitter spam takes many forms, but every spam tweet I’ve gotten in the past couple of weeks has looked like this: .bbpBox80472945369157632...
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Twitter spam again
When I added a simple spam-fighting addition to Dr. Twoot a couple of months ago, a couple of people wondered how effective it would be. So did I. It has just a couple of rules: A tweet is identified...
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Google spreadsheet phishing
Sometime last week I got an email that seemed like an obvious phishing attack. I wasn’t in the mood to track it down, so I just classified it as spam and moved on. Today I got the same message (may...
View ArticleYour writing style has been surprised me
I wouldn’t have comments on the site if it weren’t for Akismet, which does an excellent job of filtering out the spam. But it isn’t perfect, and today I noticed a spam comment that got through the...
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The Twitter spam challenge
I loved this article on Twitter spam reporting by Ryan Irelan from a few days ago, and not just because it showed Dr. Twoot to be the most efficient. As Ryan says at the top of the post, Twitter spam...
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