You can now report Twitter users for Spam.
Spam has been an ever growing problem on Twitter as more and more people start using it purely for commercial reasons – and that was never the intention of Twitter.
Every profile now has a Report Spam button listed on it – so you can now block and report those annoying spammers!
How many times have you been told that you’re important email landed in your recipients junk mail folder? Well here is a great article on email deliverability – that is, getting your legitimate emails past your clients spam filter in a reliable way.
Ray Everett-Church from Internet News writes:
With growth rates of spam, phishing, and e-mail-borne malware showing no signs of abating, more and more ISPs and enterprises are implementing stronger protective measures.
Many of these anti-spam techniques are well known to those of us in the e-mail industry tasked with managing "deliverability" "“ the art and science of getting e-mail delivered to a user's inbox in a timely and fully-functional fashion.
Ever since the first anti-spam measures began to be widely deployed in the mid-1990s, legitimate e-mails have occasionally been caught in the net and deleted, delayed, or shunted to "spam" folders.
As the economy tightens, many companies are refocusing their advertising and marketing efforts on e-mail, and as a result many enterprise IT managers are getting a crash course in deliverability issues.
As I have noted in many, many, many columns, there are a number of technical and infrastructure issues that can affect a company's deliverability.
Starting today, you may have noticed that a lot less search results were appearing in Yahoo Search. That’s because they have started filtering out all of the dangerous spam websites from their index using McAfee’s SiteAdvisor.
SiteAdvisor can be downloaded as a plug-in to Firefox or Internet explorer, but Yahoo has been working since late last year to integrate McAfee’s Web site rating technology into their search engine servers, according to Priyank Garg, a director of product management with Yahoo.
Web sites associated with malware will be dropped from search results altogether and Yahoo searchers will now see red warning labels warning them of sites that SiteAdvisor has linked with things like dangerous downloads or unsolicited e-mail.