Comments on: Conversations with a spammer http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/ thoughts. ideas. ponderings of an internet entrepreneur Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Jack Nicholas http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-4358 Jack Nicholas Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:12:37 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/#comment-4358 As you can tell from my email address I use Google's gmail. Every day I receive upwards of forty items of spam. Google do little to prevent spam from reaching my inbox apart from providing a filter which redirects a lot of it to the spam box. Not all that goes there is spam and frequently a perfectly legitimate mail goes into spam. This means that I have to open the box from time to time. What I see there are promotions for drugs, imitation watches, gambling, banking scams, sexually explicit material and downright porn. I do not think that Google do anywhere near enough to protect their users from such material but I have to keep gmail as I have over 200 contacts which I would have to inform of any new email address. I think that the internet providers should do more to protect us from spam and porn. As you can tell from my email address I use Google’s gmail. Every day I receive upwards of forty items of spam. Google do little to prevent spam from reaching my inbox apart from providing a filter which redirects a lot of it to the spam box. Not all that goes there is spam and frequently a perfectly legitimate mail goes into spam. This means that I have to open the box from time to time. What I see there are promotions for drugs, imitation watches, gambling, banking scams, sexually explicit material and downright porn. I do not think that Google do anywhere near enough to protect their users from such material but I have to keep gmail as I have over 200 contacts which I would have to inform of any new email address. I think that the internet providers should do more to protect us from spam and porn.

]]> By: seb http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-298 seb Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:39:41 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/#comment-298 Looks like a similar experience. I tend to only file boilerplate e-mails into spam rather than custom e-mails contacting me about something even if I don't know who they are from. What really gets to me is the request for link exchanges when we so blatantly (on thinkbroadband) say on our about page we do not engage in link exchanges. (hmm.. even I have to fill the reCAPTCHA!) Looks like a similar experience. I tend to only file boilerplate e-mails into spam rather than custom e-mails contacting me about something even if I don’t know who they are from. What really gets to me is the request for link exchanges when we so blatantly (on thinkbroadband) say on our about page we do not engage in link exchanges.

(hmm.. even I have to fill the reCAPTCHA!)

]]> By: Samara http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Samara Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:22:16 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/#comment-296 Hi Seb - I thought that you might find this blog entry by the editor of Wired interesting (if you haven't already seen it): http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/10/sorry-pr-people.html?cid=88149552 Hi Seb – I thought that you might find this blog entry by the editor of Wired interesting (if you haven’t already seen it): http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/10/sorry-pr-people.html?cid=88149552

]]> By: Khushal http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Khushal Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:15:31 +0000 http://blog.seb.me.uk/2007/10/13/conversations-with-a-spammer/#comment-290 Hi Seb, In a similar vein, down memory lane in olden days, when people used to leave their front doors open however it wasn't an invitation for strangers to come in and have a look around (god forbid help themselves to any property). Similarily on the internet if one should stumble across an 'open door' they should not 'enter' normally they would not enter unless they are one those corrupt and undesirable elements of society. To then devise trojans and spyware is blatently a criminal act of trespass (definatley theft if the malware then sends out information fron the infected host). People need to be educated that if they pry into others cyberspace they are commiting a criminal act. And those that develop spyware are hardened criminals. Hi Seb,
In a similar vein, down memory lane in olden days, when people used to leave their front doors open however it wasn’t an invitation for strangers to come in and have a look around (god forbid help themselves to any property). Similarily on the internet if one should stumble across an ‘open door’ they should not ‘enter’ normally they would not enter unless they are one those corrupt and undesirable elements of society. To then devise trojans and spyware is blatently a criminal act of trespass (definatley theft if the malware then sends out information fron the infected host). People need to be educated that if they pry into others cyberspace they are commiting a criminal act. And those that develop spyware are hardened criminals.

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