Gmail Is Winning the War on Spam

April 18th, 2012 → 9:00 am @ Sue Walsh

  Back in February, Microsoft hosted a competition to see which web-based email service had the best spam filtering technology. Surprisingly, their own Hotmail service, which struggled with a poor reputation for years as spammers flocked to it, came in first, …

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Hotmail Contest Pits Webmail Providers Against Each Other In Spam Battle

February 13th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Hotmail has more than earned its reputation for being  a spam trap. For years huge amounts of spam were sent and received by hotmail.com accounts. However, to their credit they have been making a real effort to change that. They are …

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Top 10 Spam Trigger Words

February 8th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Almost all spam filters rely on trigger words. These words are commonly found in spam messages and serve as a pretty good indicator of which messages are legit and which aren’t. To keep your company and marketing emails on the good …

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Microsoft Working On New Ways To Handle False Spam

October 5th, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh

It’s happened to us all. You’re expecting an important email and it never arrives (or you think it hasn’t) until you check your spam folder. There it is! Legit mail gets flagged as spam regularly. Some ISPs and mail programs …

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Facebook Admits Spam Filter Glitch

September 2nd, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Facebook has sent apologies to several people it says were mistakenly blocked from the site due to what it says was a faulty spam filter. The people who were blocked, each for a 15-day period, feel differently because they all seem …

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Microsoft Claims To Have Cut 90% of Spam

August 16th, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh

Microsoft has announced that they have reduced Hotmail spam by 90% and overall spam levels by 15%. The company says the reduction of Hotmail spam is due to the implementation of several tools including connection-time filtering, content filtering, blocklist and safelist …

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