Category: Spam
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Who has responsibility for addressing PR spam?
Since I last wrote about PR spam a few weeks ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on some of the email that’s ended up in the spam folders in Outlook. It’s a never-ending stream of spam, and it’s getting worse…
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Addressing the PR spam question on FIR Live
Last October, Chris Anderson of Wired magazine outed over 300 email addresses as spammers. In May, Lifehacker.com’s Gina Trapani started a PR Spammers wiki. These two acts are symptomatic of growing frustration and anger by many people who perceive the…
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PR spam is mostly the result of being careless
Like many in the PR and journalism blogosphere, I get PR pitches by email every day. Like many, too, I welcome pitches if they are relevant to my interests. If they are, the chances are good that I will talk…
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Adding to the first line of blog spam defence
Yesterday, I installed an addition to the first line of defence against comment and trackback spam that Akismet is so successful at. That addition is reCAPTCHA, a plugin for WordPress (with versions for other platforms), that adds a step to…
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Maximizing junk mail from the receiver’s viewpoint
I got sixteen individual items of junk mail through my letterbox this morning. Home furnishings, credit card offers, pizza restaurants, insurance… it goes on and on. Much of it has the pseudo-personal approach of “specially delivered to you by hand,”…