The idea is to not spam the entire user base but just specific users who could benefit from some information.
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And like GMail messages, misdirected calls can be marked as "Not Spam" from within the Spam folder, letting them slip through the fence the next time around.
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"It used to be people wanted to separate spam from not-spam, " he said.
The "hotties" security site HotCaptcha.com, for example, blends plain and exceptionally good-looking people from the Web site "Hot or Not" with a spam-defying secure password box--pick the good-looking people (something computers can't yet do) and you prove you're a person, not a spam software program.
This is not anonymous spam, which actually constitutes the majority of what ails my inbox.
It compares its vocabulary with e-mails which it knows do not contain spam.
Mr Gates was wrong, in that those approaches were not adopted and spam remains pervasive.
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Agari, in other words, is pitching itself not as a spam-filtering company so much as a brand-protection firm.
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It's a question not only of spam and virus control, but archiving all e-mails as required by Securities and Exchange Commission law.
The post on the official Google blog announcing the new extension, written by search czar Matt Cutts, would seem to give the lie to a claim by Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt that his company is not among the spam purveyors that Google is trying to filter out.
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He said this would discourage spam and not have much impact on the typical Internet user.
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Additionally, Goodreads is infested with self-pubbed authors who are not much better than spam bots.
Alas, Darya Gudkova, a Kaspersky Lab analyst, said that spam is not going the way of the dinosaurs just yet.
What we need to do to counter spam is not just to cut it off at a moving source, but to develop new ways to stop it.
"These protocols alone are not effective in identifying spam because spammers are doing what they always have, adapting in order to circumvent measures aimed at stopping spam, " said Paul Judge, chief technology officer at CipherTrust.
Not only were constant chat-spam messages flooding almost all chat channels (General Chat, Trade Chat, and L4G), they were absolutely massive, spanning over many line breaks.
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And it is not just due to the scourge of spam, viruses and cyber crime.
While the technique of routing mail via mail servers of net service firms might cause problems for those that use blacklists and block lists it did not mean that other techniques for stopping spam lost their efficacy too.
Food inflation will likely continue to artificially pad revenue over the short-term, not a bad thing for the parent of Spam.
During a video-conference call, for example, the system might decide not to notify you that a piece of spam had arrived in your mailbox.
But most of those PCs are likely controlled by spam-sending cyber-criminals, not foreign militaries.
We are not in the interest of spamming, or promoting or endorsing spam content.
Spam, too, became an electronic byproduct and not just a canned one, a problem that took AOL years to address.
Those being affected by spam and the number of spammer accounts escaping detection are "not tracking in an upward direction, " says Del Harvey, Twitter's head of trust and safety.
At the center of the antispam effort is a small Redwood City, Calif. not-for-profit organization called Mail Abuse Prevention System or MAPS (spam spelled backwards).
You may not hear about it much in the news, but problems, even the problem of spam, get fixed.
They would likely be violating the CAN-SPAM Act if they emailed me after I had told them that I did not wish to be emailed.
The amount of spam in circulation was still growing, said Mr Stanley, but he did not think that the appearance of this trick would mean e-mail meltdown.
This is a matter near to my heart, because I am confronted with four or five Spam calls every evening on my home phone, which is registered on the Do Not Call list.
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