Category Archives: spam

Facing Facebook spam

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

One of the things I love about Facebook is that I don’t get any spam through the system. Sure, I get some friend requests from people I don’t really know and periodically get asked if I want to become a … Continue reading →

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The dumbest application you can’t live without

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

Email. I use it everyday and I mostly hate it. We’re stuck with a system that was designed decades ago in the kumbaya days of the Internet when most people who were connected to the Internet meant well and getting … Continue reading →

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Fighting spam with picture e-mail ID

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

It’s time to turn the daily fight with spam on its head. Mail services should try to identify the mail I should pay attention to, instead of trying to just identify the junk. One way to do this is to … Continue reading →

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1309 spam messages in 90 minutes

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

I got an unpleasant surprise today – an avalanche of spam in 90 minutes. And technically, I was the one sending it. Or at least that’s what the mailservers thought. Our current email system was created in a time when … Continue reading →

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Please don’t send to a friend

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Rakesh Agrawal

One of the key ways I get around the spam scourge is to use a separate email address for close friends, family and important business contacts. I don’t use this address for anything else. As a result, the people closest … Continue reading →

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Spams, scams and search

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

During the last two weeks, I spent much of my time in focus groups on search. While I can’t talk about the concepts we were testing, one thing that struck me was the degree to which people viewed all of … Continue reading →

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Show me the good stuff

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Rakesh Agrawal

When I check my email, I scan the list of new messages for names of people I know. This is something that machines can do much faster and better. With the volume of spam and bulk mail these days, some … Continue reading →

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