Issue #76 / Mar 2007

Spammers charge real money for their dubious services, and hundreds of advertisers are willing to pay. We’ll show you some innovative techniques for controlling and containing spam, including strategies for slowing down spam bots, keeping spammers from getting your address, and separating spam from legitimate email.

Sometimes the best way to keep spam out of your mailbox is to keep the spammers from getting your address.

A tarpit slows down spam by reducing the effectiveness of the spammer’s weapons.

Spam filters can help smooth the waves in your inbox, as long as they are reliable and don’t have too many side effects. We’ll show you what we found when we tested five antispam appliances and two service providers.

We’ll show you a custom solution for moving spam to a separate folder and adding new spam signatures to SpamAssassin.