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Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail

Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail, 1st Edition

By Joe Kissell

Stamp out spam in Apple Mail by following email expert Joe Kissell's meticulously researched steps! Gain insight into the types of spam, why you get so much of it, and how to handle fraudulent or malicious messages. This book explains how Apple Mail ...

Format: Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2009

Ending Spam

Ending Spam, 1st Edition

By Jonathan Zdziarski

This landmark title describes, in-depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next generation spam filters to identify and filter spam. Readers gain a complete understanding of the mathematical approaches used in today's spam filters, decoding,...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2005

Spam Kings

Spam Kings, 1st Edition

By Brian S McWilliams

The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran investigative journalist Brian S. McWilliams deli...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2004

Spam Letters

Spam Letters, 1st Edition

By Jonathan Land

From the man behind TheSpamLetters.com - featured in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and Slashdot - comes a collection of brilliant and entertaining correspondence with the people who send out mass junk emailings (a.k.a. spam). Compiled fro...

Publish Date: June 2004

Stopping Spam

Stopping Spam, 1st Edition

By Simson Garfinkel, Alan Schwartz

This book describes spam -- unwanted email messages and inappropriate news articles -- and explains what you and your Internet service providers and administrators can do to prevent it, trace it, stop it, and even outlaw it. Contains a wealth of advi...

Publish Date: October 1998

Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam - O'Reilly Radar

By Dale Dougherty

Are we losing the war on spam? Is the war on spam a war we can win? Is there any reason for hope? When I learned how much spam was hitting our servers at O'Reilly, I decided to ask several long-time Internet luminaries these questions. Was the situation as bad as I thought it might be? In short, the answer...

Publish Date: March 05, 2007

MailChannels: Spam Filtering Plus Traffic Shaping - O'Reilly Radar

By Allison Randal

Even though spam isn't my biggest problem with email, if I could cut down on the amount of time I spend on spam, it would at least leave me more time to process other email. The first solution I tried is MailChannels. I know the people who developed it, and I've been intrigued by their combination of spam filtering with...

Publish Date: October 31, 2006

Search Engine Spam? - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

I just read Phil Ringnalda's comments claiming search engine spam by advertisers on O'Reilly sites. This was a bit of a shock to me. Since then, I've spent a bunch of time talking to people about Phil's complaints, looking into what we're doing and what I think we should do. It's clearly a complicated issue, and my opinion has changed...

Publish Date: August 23, 2005

reCaptcha - Stop Spam. Read Books. - O'Reilly Radar

By Nikolaj Nyholm

Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn's latest creation reCaptcha is yet another great example of bionic software on steroids. You'll remember Luis von Ahn as the creator of ESP Game (licensed to Google as their Image Labeler) and derivative works Phetch and Peekaboom, but what is less known is that von Ahn is the person behind captchas, version 1.0....

Publish Date: May 29, 2007

Spam Filtering Statistics from oreilly.com - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

I thought readers might enjoy this message that O'Reilly sys admin chief Bob Amen just wrote on our internal mailing list:

Publish Date: June 19, 2006

Spam-busting workshop - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

SRUTI sounds like an Indian dessert, but it's actually a Usenix-organized workshop called

Publish Date: July 13, 2005

3Genius (follow-up on "Search Engine Spam?") - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

[Tim is on the road and asked me to post a note about this.] In Tim's

Publish Date: August 25, 2005

Spam Stock Tracker - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

Via revgeorge, this awesome project tracks how much money you would lose if you made all the investments spammers try to get you to make. I had a project idea once that I was calling (after Shirky, after Kramer)

Publish Date: October 04, 2005

The end of social - O'Reilly Radar

By Mike Loukides

If you want to tell me what you listen to, I care. But if sharing is nothing more than a social application feed that's constantly updated without your volition, then it's just another form of spam.

Publish Date: December 05, 2011

Four short links: 15 December 2010 - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Dremel (PDF) -- paper on the Dremel distributed nested column-store database developed at Google. Interesting beyond the technology is the list of uses, which includes tracking install data for applications on Android Market; crash reporting from Google products; OCR results from Google Books; spam analysis; debugging map tiles. (via Greg Linden) Conversational UI: A Short Reading List -- it...

Publish Date: December 15, 2010

Four short links: 25 December 2009 - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

One Billionth Spam Message Stats -- from the honeypot project comes a pile of stats about which countries spam, what they spam for, when they spam, etc. One intriguing insight our data provides is that bad guys take vacations too. For example, there is a 21% decrease in spam on Christmas Day and a 32% decrease on New Year's...

Publish Date: December 25, 2009

 
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OST

"The Courses are Done Perfectly."

OST Student

"...it is obvious that all O'Reilly School of Technology teachers are pros. Besides that, the courses are done perfectly. They emphasize the important concepts and contain 'no fluff'."
– Kent Elchuk

Enroll Now >
Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail

Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail, 1st Edition

By Joe Kissell

Stamp out spam in Apple Mail by following email expert Joe Kissell's meticulously researched steps! Gain insight into the types of spam, why you get so much of it, and how to handle fraudulent or malicious messages. This book explains how Apple Mail ...

Format: Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2009

Ending Spam

Ending Spam, 1st Edition

By Jonathan Zdziarski

This landmark title describes, in-depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next generation spam filters to identify and filter spam. Readers gain a complete understanding of the mathematical approaches used in today's spam filters, decoding,...

Format: Print, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: June 2005

Spam Kings

Spam Kings, 1st Edition

By Brian S McWilliams

The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran investigative journalist Brian S. McWilliams deli...

Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online

Publish Date: October 2004

Spam Letters

Spam Letters, 1st Edition

By Jonathan Land

From the man behind TheSpamLetters.com - featured in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, and Slashdot - comes a collection of brilliant and entertaining correspondence with the people who send out mass junk emailings (a.k.a. spam). Compiled fro...

Publish Date: June 2004

Stopping Spam

Stopping Spam, 1st Edition

By Simson Garfinkel, Alan Schwartz

This book describes spam -- unwanted email messages and inappropriate news articles -- and explains what you and your Internet service providers and administrators can do to prevent it, trace it, stop it, and even outlaw it. Contains a wealth of advi...

Publish Date: October 1998

Another War We're Not Winning: Us vs Spam - O'Reilly Radar

By Dale Dougherty

Are we losing the war on spam? Is the war on spam a war we can win? Is there any reason for hope? When I learned how much spam was hitting our servers at O'Reilly, I decided to ask several long-time Internet luminaries these questions. Was the situation as bad as I thought it might be? In short, the answer...

Publish Date: March 05, 2007

MailChannels: Spam Filtering Plus Traffic Shaping - O'Reilly Radar

By Allison Randal

Even though spam isn't my biggest problem with email, if I could cut down on the amount of time I spend on spam, it would at least leave me more time to process other email. The first solution I tried is MailChannels. I know the people who developed it, and I've been intrigued by their combination of spam filtering with...

Publish Date: October 31, 2006

Search Engine Spam? - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

I just read Phil Ringnalda's comments claiming search engine spam by advertisers on O'Reilly sites. This was a bit of a shock to me. Since then, I've spent a bunch of time talking to people about Phil's complaints, looking into what we're doing and what I think we should do. It's clearly a complicated issue, and my opinion has changed...

Publish Date: August 23, 2005

reCaptcha - Stop Spam. Read Books. - O'Reilly Radar

By Nikolaj Nyholm

Carnegie Mellon University professor Luis von Ahn's latest creation reCaptcha is yet another great example of bionic software on steroids. You'll remember Luis von Ahn as the creator of ESP Game (licensed to Google as their Image Labeler) and derivative works Phetch and Peekaboom, but what is less known is that von Ahn is the person behind captchas, version 1.0....

Publish Date: May 29, 2007

Spam Filtering Statistics from oreilly.com - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

I thought readers might enjoy this message that O'Reilly sys admin chief Bob Amen just wrote on our internal mailing list:

Publish Date: June 19, 2006

Spam-busting workshop - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

SRUTI sounds like an Indian dessert, but it's actually a Usenix-organized workshop called

Publish Date: July 13, 2005

3Genius (follow-up on "Search Engine Spam?") - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

[Tim is on the road and asked me to post a note about this.] In Tim's

Publish Date: August 25, 2005

Spam Stock Tracker - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

Via revgeorge, this awesome project tracks how much money you would lose if you made all the investments spammers try to get you to make. I had a project idea once that I was calling (after Shirky, after Kramer)

Publish Date: October 04, 2005

The end of social - O'Reilly Radar

By Mike Loukides

If you want to tell me what you listen to, I care. But if sharing is nothing more than a social application feed that's constantly updated without your volition, then it's just another form of spam.

Publish Date: December 05, 2011

Four short links: 15 December 2010 - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

Dremel (PDF) -- paper on the Dremel distributed nested column-store database developed at Google. Interesting beyond the technology is the list of uses, which includes tracking install data for applications on Android Market; crash reporting from Google products; OCR results from Google Books; spam analysis; debugging map tiles. (via Greg Linden) Conversational UI: A Short Reading List -- it...

Publish Date: December 15, 2010

Four short links: 25 December 2009 - O'Reilly Radar

By Nat Torkington

One Billionth Spam Message Stats -- from the honeypot project comes a pile of stats about which countries spam, what they spam for, when they spam, etc. One intriguing insight our data provides is that bad guys take vacations too. For example, there is a 21% decrease in spam on Christmas Day and a 32% decrease on New Year's...

Publish Date: December 25, 2009