Comments on: Spam Continues to Try To Pollute The Universe http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/spam-continues-to-try-to-pollute-the-universe.html Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alison Murdock http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/spam-continues-to-try-to-pollute-the-universe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3051 Alison Murdock Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:27:00 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1078#comment-3051 According to my babysitters - whose lifestyle choices I find to be fairly indicative of a changing market...their friends almost never use email except when their teachers send them school work - it's a totally broken app to them. Not that IM or text messaging is spam-free as you rightly point out. Otherwise, sites like MySpace have been the platform of choice until their parents got paranoid about the creepy, online stalkers. So how do they communicate with each other - they pick up the phone! Novel concept. According to my babysitters – whose lifestyle choices I find to be fairly indicative of a changing market…their friends almost never use email except when their teachers send them school work – it’s a totally broken app to them. Not that IM or text messaging is spam-free as you rightly point out. Otherwise, sites like MySpace have been the platform of choice until their parents got paranoid about the creepy, online stalkers. So how do they communicate with each other – they pick up the phone! Novel concept.

]]> By: Mike http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/spam-continues-to-try-to-pollute-the-universe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3050 Mike Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:03 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1078#comment-3050 I get more email spam every day... but while it looks like gmail can filter most of it, there're still a lot that can pass the filters I get more email spam every day… but while it looks like gmail can filter most of it, there’re still a lot that can pass the filters

]]> By: Jessica Schallock http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/spam-continues-to-try-to-pollute-the-universe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3049 Jessica Schallock Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:40:24 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1078#comment-3049 �I haven't been up to much today. I've just been letting everything happen without me. Basically nothing seems worth bothering with. I've just been hanging out doing nothing. I just don't have anything to say right now. More or less nothing happening.� Just kidding. �I haven’t been up to much today. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me. Basically nothing seems worth bothering with. I’ve just been hanging out doing nothing. I just don’t have anything to say right now. More or less nothing happening.�

Just kidding.

]]> By: Raj Bala http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/06/spam-continues-to-try-to-pollute-the-universe.html/comment-page-1#comment-3048 Raj Bala Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:59:38 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=1078#comment-3048 My guess on the seemingly harmless comment spam is that the author hopes that you approve the initial comment thereby authenticating the user for future comments that may contain links, etc. That's all based upon the notion that you need to only approve the first comment from a given user. My guess on the seemingly harmless comment spam is that the author hopes that you approve the initial comment thereby authenticating the user for future comments that may contain links, etc. That’s all based upon the notion that you need to only approve the first comment from a given user.

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