Fighting Comment Spams – There Gotta Be A Better Way

Tag: , , , — June 7, 2008 @ 11:35 am Comments 8

People usually associate spams with unsolicited commercial emails that try to either sell you the “little blue pill”, or Nigerians phishing for your bank account details. There are many techniques fighting email spams, either at the server side or at your email client. However if you run a blog or a forum on the Internet, [...]

Greylisting Spams with Postfix + Gld

Tag: , , , — August 30, 2006 @ 7:55 am Comments 14

If you have an email address for a while, you’ll know that “spams” are almost inevitable. Once the email address has been used, spams will find their way there sooner or later. Combating email spams has also become one of the most researched topics these days. Greylisting is a relatively new method to use against [...]

DreamHost Promo Code Spammers

Tag: , , — May 15, 2006 @ 3:47 am

Spammers — they do not always have something to sell. And this morning my previous post on DreamHost promo/discount code has been spammed, by someone trying to post their own promo code that saves only $90 for new registrants of DreamHost (instead of maximum $97).