Julian Bond: "One of the mailing lists I moderate on Yahoogroups is getting hit by spam to a ridiculous extent." [Scripting News]

The same thing happened to a list here at UserLand a few weeks ago. Instead of gathering a few thousand e-mail addresses, you just go through the opt-in process and spam the list of working addresses. Though this is the first I recall hearing a robot automating this.

We might see Yahoo adopt PayPal's image verification part of their registration process.

3:28:30 PM  

Not sure if anyone is still using AltaVista, but their last index update was from back in July. AV spokeswoman: "We have crawled, but we have yet to publish the results. Pretty much everybody is working on it, it is our No. 1 priority." AltaVista announced back in February they were dumping community in favor of search. Maybe they could start a community site for former AltaVista users?

Alta Vista's Raging Search site that was a UI sham to compete with Google. Now it just redirects to a text-version of the Alta Vista site.

Included in a search on Google for "raging search", I found this statement that appeared at one time on raging.com: "Dear Raging Search user, In our continuing effort to provide the world's best search experience, we have combined Raging Search with our improved AltaVista."

ResearchBuzz has some background on Raging Search from May 2000.
9:43:21 AM  

W3C: Quality Assurance: "dedicated to all aspects concerning the quality of the implementations of W3C specifications in products (commercial or not) as well as the quality of the documents we produce."
9:32:05 AM