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Spamhaus have recently launched a new RBL for public use. We've been playing with it for the last few days... So far the results have been very good. As it pushed up the spamscore on emails that may have made it though the loop You can get information about the RBLs on their site : http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/index.lasso … [Read more...] about spamhaus

Spammers are now targetting our Bayesian filters. I've been doing some research on it, but there isn't a huge amount that we can do. The only feasible option is to work on implementing more custom rules for the main spam filters and see if that has any effect. Over the last few days there has been a marked increase in the number of emails that are getting through. Fortunately … [Read more...] about Bayesian Filters

Google has gone nuts! There is no other way of explaining it. NUTS!!! MAD!! PR always varies, but search results are usually quite stable. However the latest 'google dance' and update has changed all that. Rankings for pages have dropped completely. Why? Supposedly they were trying to stop spammers. Well that failed! Searching for 'insurance ireland' or 'irish insurance' is … [Read more...] about Google Madness