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MailChannels Blog
Company blog · blog.mailchannels.comsecurity
MailChannels Blog is the company blog at blog.mailchannels.com, writing about security. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link MailChannels posts on spam economics. The one comment here traces a figure in a post to its original 2008 UCSD/Berkeley spam study, which the commenter found after the post gave no citation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A go-to resource on best practices for email security, anti-spam trends, product updates and everything in between.
What Hacker News says?
The lack of a citation in the article bothered me (just mentions "[a] new report by researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley"). So I searched for the "magic" 347,590,389 number. It seems to be this Oct. 2008 paper by Kanich et al.: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanich/papers/spamalytics.pdf I also found a good summary (mentioning BBC repo…
Comment linking /2008/11/is-spamming-more-profitable-than-anti.html
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