PowerBook reviewed, Google hacking and spam summits lacking spammers
Hey, I’ve been busy.
Looky here: a review of the new Apple 15″ PowerBook (it’s amazingly quiet, it’s not so hot, but….) over at The Register.
At The Independent, a piece on hacking via Google.
And finally, at Netimperative, a quizzical look at the latest spam summits, asking: if you want to stop spam, why don’t you have any spammers speaking?
(Why also categorised under “Advice for PRs”? Because this is the sort of things I write about, folks. That’s what I want to read PR stuff about..)
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Sometimes you forget that there are clueless spammers too (18 January 2005; score: 76.51%)
- The wrong way to defend against comment spam (14 December 2004; score: 67.1%)
- The Spartacus approach to beating comment spam (9 November 2004; score: 59.93%)
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February 27th, 2005 at 1:22 am
And finally, at Netimperative, a quizzical look at the latest spam summits, asking: if you want to stop spam, why don’t you have any spammers speaking?
Because they’d get lynched, perhaps.
February 27th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Lynched? I think they’d be the biggest draw there. Someone prepared to stand up and admit what they do for a living?
I’d be a lot more interested, and I guarantee that newspapers and other media would be, in a spammer talking at an anti-spam conference than all the blatherheads who usually talk there about “enterprise protection” and so on.
Think of it: you get former drug addicts (even sometimes real drug addicts) speaking at police conferences or in schools.
This is just technology. It’s not like it matters if a porn link is posted to your site - you can get it off, or disable comments. Spam email, sure, is annoying. But these people are exploiting a low-cost means of marketing. Some are almost legit. Selling email addresses, as some do, actually is legit, in a broad sense.