If you love spam ‘literature’ like I do, here is the latest of the Nigerian sequel. Your Active E-mail made you a Beneficiary Dear Sir/Madam, This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the seven-member committee to…
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What twitter considers as spam
The recent update of twitter’s Terms of Service, brought to my attention this page from twitter support : The Twitter Rules. Is it not a long read but it is quite educative as to what twitter considers as spam or…
The twitter follower fallacy
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr There’s been much a discussion lately about the value of having hordes of twitter followers, sparkled mainly by the Twitter‘s Suggested Users List. Jason Calacanis came to the point to offer Twitter…
Why I won’t quit Qwitter
Image by ViaMoi via Flickr Qwitter, the recently launched service that notifies twitter users who is unfollowing them, has created tremors in the blogosphere. Most posts I have read consider qwitter an unnecessary nuisance or even plainly harmful (to the…
A Nigerian scam (=spam) classic.
I don’t remember how many years back was it when I first saw the original nigerian scam mail. You know, the type of ‘I have so many million dollars and I want to get them out of the country etc’. …
A question of spam
Spam is the single most annoying thing of the internet. Being so widespread, it is no exaggeration to say that it can bring the web to a halt. When it comes to email, this statement is as close to truth as…
Akismet goes Statistic!
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Care to know how much spam you missed? Not really. But it is an educating exercise nevertheless. And if you happen to have a hosted wordpress blog, then Akismet, the spam filter, can be…
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