Category Archives: anti-spam tips

There seems to be a common theme from people who’ve requested a Spider key (4,000 in 36 hours!) but not received one (mainly sbcglobal.net email accounts). (update, add shaw.ca to the list) So I did a bit of digging, and … Continue reading →

What a wonderful system the guys at SORBS (“Fighting spam by finding and listing Exploitable Servers”) are running. Seriously. They have my server (where I host the scamfreezone.com domain) on their email blacklist (also known as a realtime blacklist or … Continue reading →

Here’s the YouTube movie of my new solution for dealing with 42,365 spam emails per day… For a larger version of the movie, please click here Until a few days ago, I forwarded all my @scamfreezone.com email to my Gmail … Continue reading →

If you register domains and slap up websites with a quick sales letter, freebie giveaway or a bunch of articles for adsense… you’ll want to keep reading… Go to your server admin area (usually Cpanel) and click on “List Accounts“, … Continue reading →

I found this nifty plugin which allows me to check the blog comments for spams that managed to get past my filters. It’s called Paged Comment Plugin. It allows me to see *all* the comments at the blog, not just … Continue reading →

Is anyone else getting hundreds of pieces of totally nonsensical spam? An example would be, “amethystine deluxe, dividend bethesda astrology, butyrate approbation“. There’s no link to click on… nothing’s being sold, so what’s the point of “Nonsense Spam”? Why would … Continue reading →

When something goes wrong with my regular email account (which does happen once in a while… especially when I’ve had my online business for a decade), I switch to my Gmail account. (Here’s where to sign up for an account) … Continue reading →

I just thought I’d update you on my Cloudmark anti-spam statistics… Time saved to date (hrs)         22 Money saved to date           $440 Emails processed to date  15,215 Spam caught to date          8,091 Spam I’ve blocked to date      290 So I’ve “helped” the … Continue reading →