NoteWay Notes Newsletter #10
Welcome to our next edition of NoteWay Notes, the official newsletter from NoteWay Media.
This edition includes a discussion of guestbook spam and what we are doing to help combat it.
Please read on and enjoy!
The NoteWay Team
www.noteway.com
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Featured Article: Fighting Spam
The Wikipedia defines spam as “the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, bulk messages”. Most spam is propagated via e-mail, and I’m sure most of you are all too familiar with this type of spam. However, spam can also be sent via other electronic media, such as instant messenger services, Usenet newsgroups, weblogs (”blogs”), and even mobile phones.
Those of you who are running guestbooks on your websites have also probably noticed junk messages appearing amidst your other (legitimate) comments. NoteWay’s guestbook system has a spam filter in place that catches about 90% of guestbook spam. The filter looks for certain “patterns” common to how most spam messages are delivered using automated software tools. When a spam message does slip through our filters, we add the web address advertised in the spam to a blacklist of web addresses. This helps prevent the same message from appearing more than once on your guestbook. We are also working on other techniques to reduce comment spam that we’ll be rolling out in the near future.
Filtering E-mail Spam
With all this talk about guestbook spam, you may also be wondering about how to deal with email spam (or junk mail). This is something that continually clogs up many of our Inboxes each day. Fortunately, NoteWay has recently installed some new junk mail filters to reduce the amount of junk email you receive each day.
These new junk email filters are available for anyone who uses email through their NoteWay website (they are not available if you use email through other services like Yahoo or HotMail). If you would like these new filters added to your NoteWay email, simply contact us and let us know which email accounts you would like added.