How can I get off mailing lists for charities (and other non-profits) I never contacted in the first place? [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on Sep 3, 2009 - 5 answers

My blog is getting bombarded by a new kind of pingback spam. The pingbacks are produced by a WordPress plugin that appears to mine the web for links related to blog content, which then triggers a pingback notification. Can anyone help me identify the plugin, so I can possibly work to block the pingbacks? [more inside]
posted by arielmeadow on Aug 20, 2009 - 2 answers

I have a website that has profiles of a lot of artists. At the moment I'm putting their email addresses on the site. But I don't want to be the cause of their receiving lots of spam emails. I found this post, which didn't seem to answer this specific question. I also found this post, which was a little confusing, and I'm not sure if I should just paste that entire code into the html editor of the wordpress post every time I want to put in a new email address. [more inside]
posted by omnigut on Aug 18, 2009 - 9 answers

How can I get Amazon UK to quit sending me flyers with my purchases? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Aug 16, 2009 - 7 answers

I have been getting weird Wordpress referrer spam the last 4 days, but there are no injections or anything of the like on my site. [more inside]
posted by tip120 on Aug 5, 2009 - 5 answers

A particular post on my (wordpress) blog just got hit with over 10 spam comments in 3 minutes. I've disabled comments on that post for now, but what's going on? [more inside]
posted by hibbersk on Jul 6, 2009 - 5 answers

How do I get a wrongful suspension lifted in fewer than 30 days? [more inside]
posted by carofowler on Jun 11, 2009 - 14 answers

What's the oldest recorded use of the Spam Solutions Form Response? [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on May 15, 2009 - 13 answers

How Do I Get Hosts to Stop Labeling My Email As Spam? [more inside]
posted by darth_tedious on May 1, 2009 - 14 answers

Help me figure out why yahoo is auto-delivering emails from my web server directly to any yahoo accounts bulk mail folder. No, I am not a spammer. [more inside]
posted by ChefQuix on Feb 12, 2009 - 3 answers

My laptop's been infected by something that is interfering with all the usual solutions. Please help! [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Jan 25, 2009 - 30 answers

How can I get rid of a Blogspot spam blog? [more inside]
posted by Locative on Mar 1, 2008 - 8 answers

I have been receiving experimental poetry through my blog. Who is sending it and why? [more inside]
posted by brundlefly on Mar 16, 2006 - 7 answers

I have a website with a feedback form script. Suddenly, over the past week, I've been getting a lot of weird, spam-like mail sent to me via this script. (It doesn't actually sell products--it just contains gibberish, of the sort that might be used to confuse spam filters.) I'm more worried that my feedback form is being used to spam other people. How can I figure out if this is the case? And either way, how can I stop abuse of my feedback form? [more inside]
posted by yankeefog on Mar 15, 2006 - 11 answers

Phantom e-mail: I keep getting e-mail messages that don't appear to be from anyone at all. No sender, no recipient, no subject. [more inside]
posted by emelenjr on Oct 29, 2005 - 18 answers

Why are some spam messages predated, often by days and occasionally by years (I just deleted two that were supposedly from the year 2000)? I'm sure there's some technical means to send them that way, but what do they get out of it? How likely am I to see a penis enlargement offer that's hidden on page 66 of my inbox?
posted by languagehat on Apr 25, 2004 - 16 answers