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Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing

Posted by timothy on from the bring-back-the-stockade-please dept.

dbolger writes: "ZDNet has this brief, but interesting article about how the amount of spam we recieve in our inboxes has increased 650% since this time last year. Nice to know that that anti-spam legislation passed a while back is having an effect (not)." For PINE users, just remember the magic spell: "m s r f a."

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  1. Re:pine by carpe_noctem · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mutilate Spam Right Fucking Away.

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    "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
  2. Private Spam by Hougaard · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only thing I hate more than the professional spam are emails from "friends" (non-geeks) that need to inform me of that latest virus, chainmail or that there is a new update that I should download. People are simply CC'ing their entire address-book whenever they receive something that looks interesting, and thereby creating spam :-(

    And don't get me started on stupid christmas chain mails !!

  3. Santa Says To Spammer ... by resistant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I send you this coal in your stocking in order to have your grimace. No thanks, bye.

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  4. Re:What legislation? by quonsar · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, pratel, is the anti-spam legislation that has been passed in the US?

    what, pray tell, is "pratel"?

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  5. Re:Yahoo Spam filters by Legion303 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ironically enough, I cut down my spam by about 70% by sending everything with "@yahoo.com" in the headers to my spam directory. Not one false positive to date.

    -Legion

  6. So set your filter to... by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 3, Funny

    The spammer's ideal email list would include every email address on the planet with the exception of those who are inclined to take action against spam. The spammer doesn't mind the vast majority of people who "just hit delete". If automatic filtering means that those inclined to complain about the spam don't see the spam, then filtering actually helps the spammer.

    So set your filter to forward each spam to your congressman. B-) Say, with a nice form-letter about how this showed up in your inbox today and you'd really like the law against unsolicited faxes to be expanded to include spam, with only "opt-in" allowed.

    And re-tune it periodically as the congresscritters change their email addresses.

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