#spam

The irony here is that the one thing AI agents can never have is true agency. Making a decision to reach out to a stranger and take time out of their day needs to remain a uniquely human decision, driven by human judgement. Setting a goal for a bunch of LLMs and letting them loose on Gmail is not a responsible way to apply this technology.

"Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."

"There are thirty years' worth of future shock condensed into this one news item."

"Corpse graffiti, a form of emergence, is created by building a character with a clever name, i.e. "Mailbox" and dropping dead in a contextually-appropriate location, i.e. a mailbox in a high-traffic area."

"The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales--an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using cli

"It's a prototype for mashing up publicly-available RSS feeds and using them as a sort of CAPTCHA."

"IM2000 is a project to design a new Internet mail infrastructure around the following concept: Mail storage is the sender's responsibility."

"Click 3 pictures of kittens to submit"

"That's all folks. The door has officially closed on email marketing. Maybe this will drive more companies to start up opt-in RSS feeds and blogs that facilitate dialogue."

"Ban the advertising industry. Ban it now, before it's too late."

"I'm using mod_security because my server has lots of different blogging tools installed, and there's no way to centrally protect them all. This won't take care of all comment or trackback spam, but I'm hoping it will greatly reduce the amount we get. Als

How to out SEO an SEO/spammer.

"And what is to stop a mistake happening and the wrong number going on the list?" Hmm, ugh. Okay, I've been using the screensaver, but now this worries me: A counter tactic for spammers might be to randomly include other URLs in emails. How does Lycos

"FAQ: HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP? TURN YOUR SERVER STATISTICS WEBPAGES OFF!!!!" Just noticed this popping up in my referer logs.

Hmm. this makes me want to look into making a proper LOAF-using Mail.app plugin bundle

Script which generates Apache .htaccess rules to block an onslaught of repetitive referrer spam

"This paper proposes a new and currently very effective method of enhancing the abilities of mail systems to limit the amount of spam that they receive and deliver to their users."

Getting email from wordofmouthinfo.org? In case you hadn't already realized it... THIS IS A SCAM. :)

I can't read French, but apparently, this is a comment form implemented in Flash so as to throw a monkey wrench into spamming. Interesting, but misguided. Maybe even goes further toward allowing spammers to automate.

"Who the fuck is Brian?!"