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Archive for July, 2007

Two Billion

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Spam is growing.
From 0 to 1,000,000: 70 days
From 1,000,000 to 100,000,000: 190 days
100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000: 257 days
1 billion to 2 billion: 108 days
It’s funny how fast that last billion went. To celebrate we made a new chart showing total spam blocked over time.

Protect Salesforce

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Scott Hemmeter wrote in to tell us that many web forms across the web feed into Salesforce.com so people can track the responses and such from them. Like any other form on the web these get spammed to death. Scott has cooked up a solution, combining Akismet and Salesforce to combat spam:
Back in January, I [...]