More Ziff Davis Spam
Ziff Davis is at it, still. I got a few more of their ridiculous spams, without even an unsubscribe link, today. They are despicable.
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Spell Check Not Working in Word 2007
I recently installed Office 2007 on my new computer. Dubious judgment call, maybe, as it is bug-ridden as any other Microsoft product, but it was $25 at the campus store. Anyway, I rapidly found that spellcheck and, sometimes, grammar check didn’t work, at all. The below example, of a new document being checked for the
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Ziff Davis: Spammers Extraordinaire
Ziff Davis is spamming me. A lot, in fact, to the tune of several messages per day. I have, for several years, subscribed to various Ziff Davis e-mail newsletters, including the CIO Insight and eWeek publications. I have tried many times, now – approximately 20 – in the last three months to unsubscribe, however, since
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Arrrgh… E-mail is the Bane of My Existence
E-mail stats through 13 days of June:* Good: 1,217 (93.6/day) Spam: 8,535 (656.5/day) Total: 9,752 (750.2/day) This is intolerable. * Figures do not include e-mail received on my University of Chicago, Yahoo!, or GMail accounts. I don’t even want to know how bad things are when those are factored in.
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How Bad Things Have Gotten
Just how bad has comment spam gotten? Check it out, below. Red is spams, green is good comments, and black is a 30-day moving average. As you can see, I am averaging about 163 comments per day (essentially all spam). You can click on the images to enlarge them. [EDIT: The images in question were
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