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May 14, 2003 - GoodbyeSpam
Reaches Out to ISPs |
"Schwartz said that the combination of an automated challenge-response
system, which should reduce spam, and a blacklist and whitelist
system that ISPs do not have to manage, should combine to lower
bandwidth costs and the customer pain associated with spam without
adding the management costs associated with admin-managed lists."
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March 21, 2003 - GoodbyeSpam.com
at work |
"I get more spam than a lot of people do, in part because
I have several "webmaster" addresses and spammers seem to think
that "webmaster" addresses should get at least one copy of every
spam in existence. Here's a list of the crud that GoodbyeSpam
intercepted IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD!"
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March 16, 2003 - GoodbyeSpam
continues to chug along, blasting trash before it gets to my mailbox |
"While I understand the concern, it doesn't bother me much
because in the past two weeks, GoodbyeSpam has summarily killed
more than 1300 messages, automatically approved 3400, and quarantined
604. I have set up 754 approved senders and 97 approved domains.
There are 234 blocked domains and I have several dozen phrases
or words that -- if they appear in the subject of a message from
someone I don't know -- will cause the message to be blocked."
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March 2, 2003 - Give
me back my mailbox! |
"About that time, I heard about a service called GoodbyeSpam
and signed up for a trial account. That was about a week ago.
The service doesn't provide perfect protection, but it's a massive
improvement over anything I've seen before because it allows the
user to whitelist (always allow) or blacklist (always block) individual
addresses, subdomains, and domains. It also allows the user to
pass or block messages with specific words in the header, the
subject, or the body of the message."
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February 8, 2003 - Anti-spam
software gets tougher; so does spam |
So here's the mortifying truth about spam: It's not going to
stop and will probably get a lot worse. There will be a parade
of preventive programs that will never offer total protection,
like mosquito netting that always has one little hole somewhere.
As these programs incrementally improve, so will the spammer's
resolve, thereby increasing the volume of the virulent correspondence
and pushing the percentage upward of the one third or so we are
seeing today.
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February 3, 2003 - Another
Way To Kiss Spam Good-Bye |
"NEW YORK - If you have an e-mail account, you probably
have some spam or, rather, unwanted commercial e-mail. And if
you're like most e-mail users, you've either learned to accept
it as an unintended evil of the Internet or you're at wits' end
trying to put a stop to it.
New products to help clean out the in-box have been arriving
at a healthy clip in recent months. The latest we've noticed is
a Web-based service called Goodbyespam.com. "
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January 31, 2003 - Internet
privacy and spam stoppers |
"The product offers three levels of security, and allows
users to import addresses from e-mail programs into a "friends"
list with a single click, the company said. The product works
within a browser window, and supports Windows, Macintosh, Linux,
Unix and handheld PDAs. The GoodbyeSpam product lets anyone accessing
the Internet to attack spam regardless of the types of e-mail
accounts or the computer being used, the company added."
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January 30, 2003 - GoodbyeSpam
Tackles Hotmail, Yahoo Mail Junk |
"With spam at an all-time high and showing no signs of abating
anytime soon, NextGen Development Corp. on Thursday debuted GoodbyeSpam.com,
a service aimed at home and small business users of not only POP
mail, but also AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, and Juno Web-based mail
systems."
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January 30, 2003 - GoodbyeSpam.com
offers anti-spam service |
"With the solution, users establish Approved and Blocked
lists. You can also import names from your e-mail accounts for
pre-approval. When e-mail arrives in the inbox, the program eliminates
blocked e-mail and places all non-approved messages in quarantine.
It then automatically sends an e-mail to each sender asking them
to click on an embedded link. Once senders do so, their names
are placed on the Approved list, their messages are returned to
the inbox and all future e-mail will go through."
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