Carl’s SEO & Web Design Blog

Last month was busy here working with 4 clients. There is a bad link problem on this site with many links to our SEO book site going to to an old domain name. We are fixing these with time, but the correct link to our seo book is http://www.the-seobook.com.
We had a massive spam load […]

For the second time, we’ve had a client having problems with their email through Comcast. Comcast is blocking their email when using another host, even though they aren’t spamming. Contacting Comcast about it doesn’t do anything. Comcast is on our blacklist of hosts that support spammers at:
http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.pdf
They are also on our short list of […]

The level of spam is increasing dramatically, yet hosting systems and the Bush Administration are wimpys in all of this. One particularly agressive spam host is netplace.ru, with an email address of support@netplace.ru. LOTS of illegal spam comming from this guy. We suggest millions of users stomp this host until they die with multiple botnets.
Another […]

For over a year we’ve been black-listing spam hosts. This has been minimally effective - but some changes are in store to increase the effectiveness of our black list. One guy threatened to sue - until we mailed his spam email to his State Attorney General.
We did have two problems, however.

We store the […]

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One of our clients recently complained that suddenly they couldn’t send any email. Their outgoing email (SMTP) was through Comcast, and it was being was filtered with a spam filter. The commercial black list used for that had their IP listed as a spamming IP and blocking their outgoing email. Their outgoing IP belonged […]

With a Bush Administratin and Congress that seems owned by te DMA, the business of stopping spam is in your own hands. And yes, it can be controlled. To quote Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine:
We can’t rely on someone else to fix this problem…Although the bad guys are ultimately to blame, each of us, […]

We maintain a black list of IPs and domains that have spammed or phished us. This list is saved on our local computer in Microsoft Access and periodically uploaded to a MySQL table on the host that is made available to hackers, the FTC, and (when relevant) to individual state Attorney Generals. In mid-January […]

Our spam load has increased dramatically during the last few weeks in spite of spam filters on our host and system. We trap the IPs and domains of spam hosts and load them to a database. This is our black list, and is available and uncopyrighted at http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.cfm.
Note: This page is temporarily down. We […]

If you are like us, you have been angry at the increasing level of spam and the whippy laws from Congress that do anything to stop it. So we found the only way to stop it is to take the lead ourselves. We have spam filters on our host and local system. Also, we’ve been […]