Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!
| Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | --Sean |
Contrary to what Monty Python would have you believe, you can definitely have too much spam. Every time that I have to scan through the pages of poorly titled, grammatically inconsistent email messages that end up in my spam folder -- or, worse yet, my inbox -- I start to think that maybe the vikings wouldn't be all that bad as an alternative. As the most heavily used web email service out there, Yahoo! Mail consequently attracts the most spam, too, and has legions of spam-fighting robots (or computer scientists, maybe) doing their best to keep you and spam as far apart as possible. Still, you might be curious how you can actively help to make sure your inbox stays clean, so it's great that the Mail guys have gone ahead and hosted an open workshop with our Anti-Spam Czar to get all your spammy questions answered. There's a lot of good advice about what is or isn't helpful in avoiding spam -- use the Mark as Spam button! -- and it's an interesting read about why our anti-spam technology works the way it does and where we're going from here. Certainly not out for a breakfast of spam, egg, sausage and spam, if we can help it.