I really like FeedBurner. I think it's a really cool service and have been delighted with each and every new feature that they've added. I have no idea how many users they currently have, but the vast majority of blogs that I read on a regular basis seem to be using the service. Of course they may feel that they need to increase market share, but there are good ways to do that … [Read more...] about FeedBurner Spams – How Not to market
Spam Filtering
Has Hash cash’s time come?
According to an in the New York Times AOL and other ISPs are considering a plan to charge for email sent to their networks. While unpaid mail will still be accepted it will have to "run the gauntlet" of the spam filters etc.,: AOL and Yahoo will still accept e-mail from senders who have not paid, but the paid messages will be given special treatment. On AOL, for example, they … [Read more...] about Has Hash cash’s time come?
Broadband ISP acting smart?
According to a post on Jason's blog (welcome to the blogosphere by the way!) Irish ISP Smart Telecom have decided to block port 25. It seems that the new policy affects all customers unless they have a static IP and specifically request that the restriction be lifted. It's an interesting and quite brave move for an Irish ISP to make and probably won't be the last one. From the … [Read more...] about Broadband ISP acting smart?
Open Source Eye Candy
Last year the spamassasin project ran a competition to design a new logo. Justin posted a link to a number of very nice versions of the logo this evening I hadn't realised that there were so many variants available for immediate use: … [Read more...] about Open Source Eye Candy
SNDS – Microsoft Helps ISPs Combat Spam
I mentioned Microsoft / MSN / Hotmail's recent initiative SNDS a few days ago. At the time I hadn't really had the opportunity to explore it and was finding the navigation around it quite annoying (ie. I couldn't find what I was looking for easily, so I got bored and left). I've since has some time to explore the interface a bit more and, while I do believe it could be improved … [Read more...] about SNDS – Microsoft Helps ISPs Combat Spam