Wagging the Dog(Bark)
sniffing around the Internet

This is an oldy-but-a-goody. You may wonder why so many junk messages have an image in the contents, usually not attached. There are two reasons:

You may have noticed a severe drop in the amount of spam coming through to you. Two things have factored in to this wonder: our filters are continuing to learn the new profiles coming in, and a data center in California that was a major source of spam was shut down on Tuesday, 11/11.

A few days ago I got the horrible news that our token office PC was going to be taken home by a certain Samuel Rainey, M.A in order for him to watch football games, or something ridiculous like that, in his office at home. Don’t get me wrong, I am a 100% Apple Computer guy, [...]

We’ve all been there — staring at an unreal number of junk messages, wondering “who clicks through on this stuff? How do these guys make any money?”
Well, researchers at UC-Berkeley and UC-San Diego have published a study saying that spammers get, on average, an estimated 1 response per 12.5 million messages. Amazing. Click here to [...]