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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | The battle against bogus emails

Citation added: December 8th, 2008, 2:37 am
Spammers must send out around 12.5 million unsolicited e-mail messages before someone takes the bait and responds, according to research by the University of California, Berkeley. David Reid finds out that despite many inboxes filling up with bulk messages, the profit margins of malicious spammers are rather vulnerable. Any threat to their operation can erode away their profits, with 350 million junk e-mails a month earning just over $100 (£68) a day for those behind them.
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BusinessWeek Debate Room E-mail Faces Deletion

Citation added: August 14th, 2008, 5:39 am
In the comments: Every single problem you have with e-mail will exist in something like Twitter given enough usage.
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Johnlevine.com: Why we'll never replace SMTP

Citation added: July 31st, 2008, 12:19 pm
The reason that e-mail is uniquely useful is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know. The reason that spam exists is that you can exchange mail with people you don't already know.
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Slashdot | Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide

Citation added: July 25th, 2008, 7:55 am
In the comments: if only he had used canadian antidepressants! I am sure I could find the mail somewhere which had extremely good rates from a company called International Pharmacy.
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Dovecot antispam plugin - Johannes MoinMoin

Citation added: June 5th, 2008, 3:45 am
I want to simply be able to move false positives out of the spam folder and false negatives into it. This leads to the concept of integrating the spam retraining process into the IMAP server. Even if I'm using dspam, the antispam plugin now has the co
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