{"id":1762,"date":"2002-08-20T06:16:48","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2002-08-20T06:16:48","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T06:16:48","slug":"spam_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Spam thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> has a story up about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000014.html\">someone being mislabeled as a spammer<\/a>. There are a number of posts up on the weblog about it, including one talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000019.html\">how easy it is to report someone as a spammer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>This got me thinking a bit more about services like SpamCop.  ISPs supposedly pay enough attention to them that if you are labeled a spammer they don&#8217;t want you as a customer.  But there&#8217;s no form of control here. Even if everyone involved gets together to show them an error, SpamCop isn&#8217;t listening.  IMHO, this makes their service less effective.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>On other spam fronts, I&#8217;m experimenting with the new spam filtering features in Jaguar. The latest version of the OS X Mail app lets you tag messages as spam and supposedly learns over time what is and isn&#8217;t spam.  Currently I&#8217;ve turned off spamassassin and am letting Mail do its thing.  So far it is doing a pretty good job. It hasn&#8217;t misreported any regular mail as spam and has caught most of the spam I&#8217;ve gotten.  I&#8217;ll report more in a month or so.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>One other thing I discoved that OS X Mail can do is bounce messages back to the sender saying that the message couldn&#8217;t be delivered.  I&#8217;m thinking of tying this into the spam detection so that when I get spam it bounces the message back like I don&#8217;t exist.  The question is if most spammers are listening for message bounces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing has a story up about someone being mislabeled as a spammer. There are a number of posts up on the weblog about it, including one talking about how easy it is to report someone as a spammer. This got me thinking a bit more about services like SpamCop. ISPs supposedly pay enough attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}