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  1. Re:Hotmail by mongus · · Score: 1 · on Spam Research Six Month Report
    I stopped using my Hotmail account about two years ago because I'd get about one valid email per month and about 500 spams. It really sucks going through page after page of spam just to see if you have any valid emails. I gave up on Hotmail.

    I'm using my Hotmail account again thanks to Herbivore. It has support for Hotmail. An added bonus is my messages come straight into my mail client so I don't have to go through Hotmail's site to read them.

  2. Re:spam is a killer (I'm immune) by mongus · · Score: 1 · on Spam Research Six Month Report
    My email address is on my website.
    My email address is in my usenet posts.

    I make my email address easily available to spammers everywhere. Go ahead, add me to your list. You don't scare me!

    I feed Herbivore all the spam I can but it doesn't like it much.

  3. What a great idea! by mongus · · Score: 1 · on Spam Research Six Month Report
    So original! Google groups only turns up "about 13,700,000" matches for "nospam". I'm sure the spammers haven't figured it out yet.

    Spammers, please take note of my email address above. Send me all the spam you've got. It helps improve Herbivore's accuracy.

  4. Bad Addresses by mongus · · Score: 4, Informative · on Spam Research Six Month Report
    Almost all of the spam I get is to invalid addresses. I get all of the incorrectly addressed email for about 10 different domains - somewhere around 1000 messages per day. I don't know if the spammers just made up the addresses or if someone intentionally filled out forms with bogus addresses.

    I'm happy to get all of this spam because it increases the effectiveness of my anti-spam system Herbivore. Herbivore is a distributed anti-spam system. Everybody that uses it increases it's accuracy. If you're interested, any Slashdot readers can get two years for free by entering "slashdot" as the promotional code. Help us fight spam!

  5. Retrieve Messages More Often! by mongus · · Score: 2, Informative · on Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?
    I get around 1000 messages (mostly spam) every day over my 56K modem without even noticing.

    I've got Herbivore (my anti-spam program) set up to retrieve my mail from the mail server every 2.5 minutes and I've never noticed a slowdown from spam. Most spam messages aren't very big. They include links to images instead of the actual images. Still, I guess 1000 messages at 2K each is around 2MB but spread that over 24 hours and there's very little impact on my work.

    <shamelessplug>
    If you're interested in Herbivore enter "slashdot" as the promotional code when you join to get 2 years free. :-)
    </shamelessplug>

  6. Retrieve Messages More Often! by mongus · · Score: 2, Informative · on Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?
    I get around 1000 messages (mostly spam) every day over my 56K modem without even noticing.

    I've got Herbivore (my anti-spam program) set up to retrieve my mail from the mail server every 2.5 minutes and I've never noticed a slowdown from spam. Most spam messages aren't very big. They include links to images instead of the actual images. Still, I guess 1000 messages at 2K each is around 2MB but spread that over 24 hours and there's very little impact on my work.

    <shamelessplug>
    If you're interested in Herbivore enter "slashdot" as the promotional code when you join to get 2 years free. :-)
    </shamelessplug>

  7. Re:Alan Ralsky? by badfinch · · Score: 1 · on Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles

    I have found what I believe will be Alan Ralsky and his fellow spammers undoing. I was playing around with names at random, seeing what was there. My wife suggested herbivore and we typed in the tld's for them and then tried the .us extension. We were suprised to find an anti spam site. At first I laughed at the notion. After reading the overview I downloaded the trial and I have been amazed at the amount of crap it has caught. I have received 2 spam in the last week that got through the filter. The cool part about the system is, according to the site, that the bigger the network gets the better it can filter due to its automatic spam tracking on the network of users. The site is herbivore.usfor anyone else out there that would like to take a look.