The only real solution, most anti-spam advocates agree, is to remove spammers' financial incentive.
Detecting all automated behavior could force spammers to replace cheap software with relatively expensive humans.
Wherever decent people gather, the spammers, shysters, scammers and phishers are sure to follow.
It does not check to see if that net location is owned by known spammers.
Which begs the question: what tricks will the spammers rely on to circumvent these new algorithms?
Now that tax season is in full swing, the spammers and schemers are out in force.
I'd venture to guess that 100 percent of our spammers and trolls do so.
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Lawsuits by Microsoft and AOL against suspected spammers are still making their way through the courts.
Once compromised the machines start to pump out junk mail on behalf of spammers.
Spammers crop up like mushrooms after rain, so it will be impossible to prosecute everyone.
When the search results appear, the spammers' own sites are listed at the top, Bradshaw said.
Meanwhile, the ICO is chasing spammers, leading to a "dramatic decrease" in activity, says Wigmore.
But with untold numbers of spammers about, prosecuting a selected few will have only limited impact.
CAPTCHAs definitely serve an important function, keeping spammers from mass-creating email accounts or junking up comment streams.
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Something must be done about the spammers and marketers who think it's fine to secretly profile users.
Its combination of its high traffic and free editability creates an irresistible target to spammers and vandals.
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Many spammers pummel online databases with thousands of requests in an attempt to build up files on users.
Cyan was managing IronPort's blacklist of spammers when they met four years ago at a friend's poker night.
It appears to be taking revenge against Spamhaus because the organization recently added Cyberbunker to its blacklist of spammers.
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When spammers started spewing postings to the thousands of groups NNTP died out.
The spammers and those seeking to perpetrate financial fraud are still with us.
This information is often sold to spammers, or senders of unsolicited commercial e-mails.
Vixie's revenge is the Realtime Blackhole List, a compilation of Internet Protocol addresses determined by MAPS to be spammers'.
Meanwhile, BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson's account was hacked by spammers advertising weight-loss tablets.
Spamhaus, a firm that identifies the source of junk e-mails, includes Mr Francis-Macrae on its list of professional spammers.
The problem, of course, is spammers, scammers, and other shady characters have made good use of URL shortening services, too.
David Stanley, UK managing director of filtering firm Ciphertrust, said the new technique was the next logical step for spammers.
These spammers send e-mails directing users to a particular search engine where they are told to enter specific key words.
Swidler says the arrest may be intended to intimidate other spammers, a tactic that he says is also doomed to fail.
Our social streams are being polluted by scammers, spammers, phishers, groupies and people who are not who they claim to be.
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