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Will unsubscribing from spam get you even more spam?
To quote Rick's Spam Digest:
It’s just too likely that the spammer uses the “removal” feature as a means to compile lists of known-deliverable e-mail addresses, and you could simply wind up getting more spam for your trouble.
Phil Bradley…
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Does scam-baiting make a noticeable difference to the prevention of internet fraud?
So I've recently found out about scam-baiting, and I've discovered a whole community around just wasting the times of scammers, such as 419Baiter and TheScamBaiter.
A lot of the people there are quite passionate about it. Some have set up fake…
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Is the 500-mile email case true?
According to the author of this story, an improperly configured email server had too strict timeout settings which effectively limited its communication radius to 500 miles.
The author states it's the maximum range a signal can travel there and…
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What percentage of total internet traffic is spam?
Here's some snippets from a Google search:
Report: Spam now 90 percent of all e-mail
4% of all internet traffic either DDOS packets or spam email
more than 50% of email is SPAM
Spam traffic dropped precipitously in January, falling to 78.6 percent…
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Did Spam sue a 'popular email service' in the early days of the internet?
I seem to clearly remember hearing many years ago that Spam () sued Microsoft (or AOL, or another popular email service at the time) for using the word 'spam' to refer to junk email. They said it was of detriment to their brand.
Searching now,…
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Did a leaked email reveal that NATO and France had Gaddafi killed to prevent the release of a new gold-backed currency?
"Supposedly", the leaked Hillary emails exposed NATO and France was behind taking down Gaddafi in Libya due to the "gold backed" dinar they were about to release.
Based on the article Libyan Oil, Gold, and Qaddafi: The Strange Email Sidney…
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Can emails in draft box avoid detection?
At around the 28 mins and 13 secs of Season 3, Episode 9, of the TV series Strike Back, Major Oliver Sinclair (portrayed by Rhashan Stone) claims the following, the truth of which I'd like to know.
Any intelligence agency can monitor emails that…
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