Fifteen years ago this month, the age of spam began. Like so many things, it started innocently enough, when a couple of immigration lawyers in Phoenix pitched their services to pretty much everyone who was on the Internet at the time, via the 6,000 newsgroups in existence then.More...

One of my fellow Bloggers recently made a posted titled “Canning spam at the door” regarding the issue of fighting SPAM in the cloud. As Marc described, last year Sprint stopped more than 250 billion SPAM messages from reaching its customers (more than 98% of email sent using Sprint’s services!). While there are lots of ways to fight the SPAM problem, as he described, one of the best options is a network-based solution that works within the cloud.More...

The Official Google Blog has published a series of entries about how the company uses its collected data to make its services better. One post talked about reducing “webspam”, essentially irrelevant search results caused by people working the search ranking system. Google has a whole team devoted to weeding webspam. More...