http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/ Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-202 Akismet how I love thee | ara pehlivanian—Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™ Tue, 09 May 2006 13:34:14 +0000 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-202 [...] Back in December of ‘05 Molly wrote Best. Spam. Ever. at which time I was lucky enough not to have the problem of comment spam. Fast forward to about a month ago and suddenly my post and suddenly my post Proper URI design started to gain the attention not of fellow web-heads, but of spammer-freaks. Who knows, it could have been my immensely popular post on Coming soon to a theatre near you–I confess, I dugg my own post–that opened me up to the non-web-head crowd. Either way, the comment spam began to flow. [...] [...] Back in December of ‘05 Molly wrote Best. Spam. Ever. at which time I was lucky enough not to have the problem of comment spam. Fast forward to about a month ago and suddenly my post and suddenly my post Proper URI design started to gain the attention not of fellow web-heads, but of spammer-freaks. Who knows, it could have been my immensely popular post on Coming soon to a theatre near you–I confess, I dugg my own post–that opened me up to the non-web-head crowd. Either way, the comment spam began to flow. [...]

]]> http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-185 Ara Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:23:34 +0000 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-185 <p><strong>Ian</strong>: Hey cool, I didn’t know that MS had that. The motivation for this post was actually because I’ve been getting hit with a bunch of comment spam lately. I decided to give <a href="http://akismet.com/" rel="nofollow">Akismet</a> a try and I’ve got to say it works like a charm! </p> Ian: Hey cool, I didn’t know that MS had that. The motivation for this post was actually because I’ve been getting hit with a bunch of comment spam lately. I decided to give Akismet a try and I’ve got to say it works like a charm!

]]> http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-184 Ian Muir Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:07:50 +0000 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/04/23/open-letter-to-spammers-nobody-likes-you/#comment-184 This is actually one thing that I think Microsoft had a good idea for. Create e-mail servers that pause for .5 seconds between each e-mail sent from an account. This .5 second delay wouldn’t affect most people, even my company’s newsletter would only take about 3 hours to process. But for a spammer who sends out 2.5 million e-mails this would be crippling. If it takes a week to send out spam, then the 2% conversion rate is no longer profitable. This is actually one thing that I think Microsoft had a good idea for. Create e-mail servers that pause for .5 seconds between each e-mail sent from an account. This .5 second delay wouldn’t affect most people, even my company’s newsletter would only take about 3 hours to process. But for a spammer who sends out 2.5 million e-mails this would be crippling.
If it takes a week to send out spam, then the 2% conversion rate is no longer profitable.

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