Thursday, December 11, 2003

Managing Change and Risk

Rogers E, (1985), Diffusion of Innovations, The Free Press, New York, is the original source of the adopter categories:
  1. Innovators
  2. Early adopters
  3. Early majority
  4. Late majority
  5. Laggards


There is a nice description of each group at http://www.affinitymc.com/managing_change_and_risk.htm.

There is a nice distribution curve and some interesting activies at http://www.modern.nhs.uk/improvementguides/human/6.html.

Geoff Moore's use of the categories below is noted at http://www.nipltd.com/approach/method/chasm.

  1. Easrly Market
  2. Chasm
  3. Bowling Alley
  4. Tornado
  5. Main Street
  6. Assimilation

Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Fight Spam on the Internet!

http://spam.abuse.net/
Nice site. Includes seperate sections to help users and sysadmins. Sysadmin site section has a lengthy list is links about mail transfer agent strategies to reduce spam.

Stop Spam!

http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/index.html
Good list of other resources (links to web sites).

SpamCon Foundation: to reduce spam (junk email)

http://www.spamcon.org/
Organization trying to reduce spam with what appears to be a legislative focus.

Spam Site | Spam Filter Reviews

http://www.spam-site.com/
Lots of information on Spam and various tools that are available.

Anti-Spam Filters

http://mmmservices.web.cern.ch/mmmservices/Help/contents/0_4_spam-filters.asp
A nice explanation of the various filters being applied by one hosting service.
1. Checking the validity of the envelope sender address
2. Well known spam destinations
3. Attempts to use CERN as a relay are rejected
4. Well known dangerous attachments
5. Bad local addresses
6. BadStrings (viagra)

freshmeat.net: Category Reviews - Spam Filters

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/964/
August 23, 2003 review and discussion of various Bayesian and heuristic filters.