Some good news on the spam front this month: worldwide spam was cut in half when a single web hosting firm was shut down, The Washington Post reported. McColo Corp, a company based in San Jose, California (but claiming a Delaware mailing address), allegedly operated servers that sent spam messages for various international groups. These clients, in [...]

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Ask anyone who gets email, and they’ll tell you how much they hate email spam. We all get tired of the dozens of messages that end up in the “bulk” or “spam” folders of our inboxes, advertising cheap (and questionable) pharmaceuticals or fabulous (and also questionable) mortgage rates. We install increasingly-sophisticated spam filters in an [...]

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