I recently was twiddling bits in the WordPress Admin console and noticed that people were not allowed to register for my blog. Now, I’m not sure why anyone would choose to register, but I didn’t see any reason to stand in their way, if they felt the need. So, I checked the box (or unchecked [...]
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Archive for the ‘spam’ Category
WordPress vulnerabilities when allowing subscribers
By Lee on Sunday, September 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Google announces Priority Inbox, only six days too late
By Lee on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Image via Wikipedia I’ve come to the realization that email is destroying my productivity. It’s not a distraction; it’s destruction. There are days that I find I’ve gotten nothing done but handling emails. It’s a completely victim-oriented approach to time management, having your day driven by what drops into your inbox. So I began the [...]
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By Lee on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | No Comments
For years now, I’ve been managing my email, fighting spam, and spotting phishing emails through the use of an email routing system that I developed. The problem with today’s email system is that anyone can put email into your inbox without anything more than your email address. Yes, you can put things like filters, whitelists, and [...]
Read More...What an accomplishment!
By Lee on Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | No Comments
Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]
Read More...Can you identify the source of your spam? Can you shut it down?
By Lee on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | No Comments
It’s amazing what I can see, thanks to the use of domain-specific email addresses. I can see when one company uses another company’s mailing list. I can see when a company doesn’t honor its unsubscribe requests. I can also see when a company’s mailing list has been compromised. Best of all, I have the power [...]
Read More...What the heck is that?!
By Lee on Friday, June 1st, 2007 | No Comments
I happened to spot this in my GMail spam folder. I’ve never seen a character like this in a browser before. It reminds me of the old days, where individual characters could be constructed by setting each bit. I don’t understand where my machine would get a font with such a character. I can only [...]
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