Comments on: Making private identity public

By: Asi

Asi — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:54:04 +0000

I’m not sure this is really effective, unfortunately . In order for the name and shame list to hurt it has to be personal and should have been rather shorter as too many people on the list remain somewhat anonymous…

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:50:40 +0000

The problem with publishing a list like this is that spammer often do not use their own email addresses and so people that are completely unrelated to the spammer get hit with the black listing.

While Mr. Anderson may be a unique case where most of the people spamming him really use their own email address, I don’t think that would be the case with most of us.

By: j.

j. — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:21:55 +0000

Hi Joshua.
PR spammers are spammers. Should we really care if they send us “info” instead of “pills”?

By: epc

epc — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:14:33 +0000

It’s funny to see people who’ve sent a PR blast to 10,000 people complain about their email addresses being publicised.

My work email address was briefly listed in every page on ibm.com in the 1990s. When I left I was receiving over 500 emails a day. I hesitate to label them all spam because many were from people attempting to sell something specifically to me, but I defy any one person to handle 500 unsolicited emails a day (I can’t imagine what it would be today).

By: mvlib

mvlib — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:19:35 +0000

Just use gmail to cut down spam emails.
P.S. Joshua, consider about filtering spam in blog comments.

By: idont

idont — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:26:48 +0000

It is the same issue everybody is facing. He is lucky.. his spam is more focused than our.

On my website’s main email (info@…) I get over 2’000 spams per day for so stupid stuff…. (I never subscribed to any mailing list, porn service, etc.)