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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:msrfa? by KarmaPolice · · Score: 5, Informative


    Main menu
    Setup
    Rules
    Filters
    Add

    But this doesn't work unless you know what to look for in spam...and none are alike

  2. Yahoo Spam filters by LS · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use a yahoo address for my email, and have it forward to my local server's mailbox. Yahoo adds a header "X-Rocket-Spam" to mail tagged as spam, and I use procmail to filter these out. While their spam detection still works pretty well, ever since the economy went to shits their filtering has progressively gotten worse. I suspect that they are letting certain spam slip for a fee. It used to catch everything, but now I get at least 10 messages a day getting through.

    LS

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    There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
  3. Not news - an advert (or press release) by ukryule · · Score: 5, Informative
    This "news" report comes straight from a press release.

    So, a company selling email filtering software say that email filtering is ever so important? What they actually said was:
    "Our database of holiday-related email messages and attachments has grown 650 percent since last Christmas,"
    But their job is to build up a database of junk, so it's not really surprising - it's just saying that their database is up to date (or that their database was very out-of-date last year).
  4. Re:Spam will kill the internet by Halo1 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yeah, just read this: http://www.clifto.com/8345.html. This guy calculates, using publicly available numbers about the amount of businesses in the USA, that even if only 1% of all *US* companies sends you only 1 message a month, you end up with 8345 ads *PER DAY* in your mail box.

    So even if they'd send you only one per year, you'd still get on average about 695 ads per day. So people, instead of JHD (Just Hit Delete), please try to find the time to figure out where the spam was sent from and where the spamvertized sites are hosted and report the spammers or they things may become very ugly...

    Jonas

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