If you want to broadcast a message to multiple email addresses, you should use a dedicated mail list application. These days, there are a number of dedicated mail list scripts which can be downloaded for free. The only thing is that you need to have access to a web server to install a mail list application, or you need to have your own website where you can install an email plugin. Failing these, the next best thing is not to enter the … [Read more...]
ISP network PLDT getting worse
December 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
The Philippines' premier ISP network, pldt.com.ph, has improved its position - in a worst kind of way. By not resolving the spam issues raised against it, PLDT has moved from spot #10 to spot #8 in the Spamhaus Project's World's Worst Spam Support ISPs roster. As at 13 December 2010, PLDT has 38 spam issues against it, the same amount of issues we noted in our last spam watch. … [Read more...]
PLDT joins World’s Top 10 Worst ISPs
November 28, 2010 By 8 Comments
The latest report on the world's worst spam problem networks includes pldt.com.ph, the domain name of the Philippines' telecommunications company PLDT. The report, released by the Spamhaus Project, has listed 38 unresolved spam issues against pldt.com.ph which positioned it as the world's number 10 worst spam support network. The Spamhaus Project is a Geneva- and London-based spam-tracking organisation with 28 investigations and forensics … [Read more...]
Public education, ACMA, and anti-spamming
January 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
We tip our hat to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for its relentless fight against spamming. The ACMA is responsible for the regulation of the broadcasting, radiocommunications, internet, and telecommunications industry in Australia. With approximately 540 staff spread over its principal offices in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney, the organisation is not small. I have followed the activities of the ACMA during the … [Read more...]
Australia’s fight against spamming
December 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This post is out of my ordinary posts, but I thought I'll give you an update on the latest developments in Australia's fight against spamming. Two days ago, the Federal Court in Brisbane imposed Australian $6.5 million in penalties to two respondents who were allegedly involved in SMS spamming. The two respondents are part of a group, according to the government watch dog Australian Communications and Media Authority, that was likewise … [Read more...]
Australia not in Top 10 worst spam origin countries, but home to #6 spammer
October 27, 2009 By 7 Comments
Daily updates of the independent spam-tracking organisation, The Spamhaus Project, are like a "Who's Who?" in world economy and industrial power. The United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, China and Japan. Yes, they are all there. Except Australia. How Australia has been able to elude the Top 10 list is not due to its relatively smaller population size. … [Read more...]
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