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Cyrillic Spam

We have some fairly advanced spam filtering at TMC but I am always cautious with spam, erring on the side of checking everything and not letting anything get deleted without checking it at least once. From time to time I miss an important message but I am getting a total of 1,000 messages a day when you sum it all up so checking this mess is time consuming. We have the option to delete items marked as spam and I don't do this unless the sender is on a blacklist. Blacklists are centrally maintained and this system is pretty accurate. Every now and then a real message gets flagged as spam.

Anyway, I wanted to share a tip. One of our spam filters -- yes we have a few on the server and locally, on each machine -- changes the subject line to tell you why the message is marked as spam. I have been noticing more and more Cyrillic spam and the subject of all these messages now have the word Cyrillic in them. I just made a rule that takes these messages and deletes them. Spam has been reduced a great deal.

I still check the deleted folder (I have to permanently delete something for it to go away) from time to time but out of a few thousand Cyrillic messages, not one of them has been legitimate so far. The same can be done will characters in other languages. Good luck and happy spam hunting.

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Get VoIP Points

The VoIP market gets more mainstream by the day. Now you can get points for talking and use points to pay for service. The company behind this innovation (is innovation too strong a word for a VoIP frequent flyer program?) is VoIPMDU. This is pretty interesting way to market VoIP and is definitely outside the box thinking from this Canadian company. Here is an interesting article about VoIPMDU and Points.com, the company behind the points system for this announcement.

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Communications and Technology Podcast

Be sure to check out the TMC's latest communications and technology podcast. We talked about lots of important issues this week from Atkins to Vox and UT Starcom to VoIP Inc. and Volo. There is an interesting dialogue on implantable chips and bladder control. There is a Supercomm discussion -- we discuss the future of this event. There is talk about Alcatel and Aruba. There is even a joke I made that no one got. We also talk about satellit broadband, WiMAX and more. Take a listen. This one is pretty good. We also discuss the new ADSL ITU standard VDSL2, $15 SBC DSL and Chairman Kevin Martin's commitment to broadband. We finish the podcast discussing the new .XXX domain name. Enjoy.

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Good Supercomm Overview

Om Malik has a good Supercomm overview here. Om, I will be there and I’ve noticed I don’t cover shows as well when I am present as I seem to always overbook meetings – leaving almost no time to report on the news. You don’t ever know who is going to deliver the really good news until you get there. Still, the TMC team will be laser focused on Supercomm news this week so keep your eyes on TMCnet for more.

Om, you forgot to mention I will be speaking there as well and TMC/Internet Telephony Magazine will have a killer party at the top of Sears Tower on Tuesday.

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