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
By November 28, 2010 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...]
Why use a special-purpose email address?
By April 9, 2009 2 Comments
This morning, I suddenly remembered an article I wrote about ten years ago and published in one of the local papers in Sydney. The article, now reloaded in this post, was titled "How to create a permanent email address." In my original article, I suggested ways to creating an email address using your favorite domain name or in fact, your own domain name, which you would like to be your permanent email address. The suggested technique … [Read more...]
How to be contacted the easy and safe way
By March 11, 2009 2 Comments
If you're wondering what type of plugin I am using to run my online Contact form, it is WP-SpamFree, a natural WordPress plugin. Prior to my using this plugin, we had a non-WordPress PHP script installed in our other sites but customizing its looks each time we re-skin our sites was very tedious. Since we installed WP-SpamFree, to date I have not seen any spam ~ from contact or comment forms ~ escaping its protective net. I hope we will … [Read more...]
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