If you want to do something dodgy online there are ways to do it without getting caught. Of course some people obviously think that they won't get caught and try some really dumb things. Damien got crap service from an Irish company recently and blogged about it. There are several ways that the company in question could react to this kind of situation, but obviously someone in … [Read more...] about More Irish Business Abusing The Internet?
Spam Filtering
SPF Does Its Job – Pity The Host Didn’t
SPF has been around for a couple of years now and is included with all installs of Spam Assassin by default. So why is it that some hosting companies can't understand how it works or how email filtering works? It's not rocket science. SPF, which I've mentioned here several times in the past, allows a domain owner to specify which mail hosts can send mail from the domain. It's … [Read more...] about SPF Does Its Job – Pity The Host Didn’t
Google Doesn’t Respect Email
I was just playing around with the new interface for Google Analytics and decided to email myself a report. It's a nice little feature, but there is a serious downside to their implementation. Instead of sending the email from a Google domain (it's not as if they have a shortage) they send it from your email address. While this may seem logical at face value it has serious … [Read more...] about Google Doesn’t Respect Email
If it’s not spam why are you telling me?
You've got to love reciprocal link spammers! Their emails are great! I got this one earlier today: Dear owner of http://www.xxxxx.xxxx, I'm the webmaster of http://www.xxxx.xxxx. We came across your site on the Internet and feel that it would fit perfectly into our collection of quality software-related links at http://www.xxxx.xxxx. The Google PR of this site is currently … [Read more...] about If it’s not spam why are you telling me?
Lotus Chinese Medical Services Are Spamming Scum
Over the past few days a Coleraine based company, Lotus Chinese Medical Services, have been systematically spamming a LOT of Irish companies. While spam may be annoying and I'm no stranger to it, what makes this spam a little different and more annoying is the payload. The idiots are sending out a rather large PDF attachment with each and every email! The file is about 2 … [Read more...] about Lotus Chinese Medical Services Are Spamming Scum