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Spam Archive opening FTP service December 4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-would-you-save-this-crap dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "The FTP archives for spamarchive.org will be opening on December 4, according to this Wired article. But there already appear to be some archives available." I tried saving my spam for awhile just for giggles, but seeing that file grow to 100+ megs made me so angry I had to delete it. Currently getting ~200 spam every day, and now often they attach images so they are 100k+. Yay Internet!

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  1. Re:just wondering by picz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who gets most spam?

    People with public e-mail addresses do. Try writing a few usenet articles and have your e-mail address on a web site and wait for the spam to emerge.

    Thank God for SpamAssassin

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  2. Re:just wondering by aallan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who actually gets loads of spam every day? I get about 3 per day (3 too many!). You always hear about these poor suckers getting 200 or so a day, but how many of us actrually have to put up with that much stuff?

    According to my filter logs I'm currently getting between 100 and 150 spam messages a day, I'm currently using RBL and SpamAssassin to filter my inbox so I usually only see 2 or 3 a week out of this total. Its still annoying though,

    Just because you don't get any spam, doesn't mean everybody else isn't geting any...

    If I got that much, I'd just switch email accounts, cos I just wouldn't put up with it.

    Some people just don't have that option, you can't change your work email address, I know I certainly can't change mine...

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  3. Re:Yay Internet ? by Cheese+Cracker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not the net's fault. Blame (or shoot) the spammer's.

    Well, some people ask for it by using their personal email account for signing up on sites, posting on usenet etc. Use an email account for these purposes, and the personal email account for friends and family. I don't receive any spam on my personal email account. :)

  4. Blame the Victim by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, some people ask for it by using their personal email account for signing up on sites, posting on usenet etc.

    Yeah, like those rape victims that were asking for it by wearing short skirts.

    Nobody 'asked for it'. Don't you even resent the fact that spammers have made it impossible to post on Usenet with a legitimate e-mail address? Doesn't it piss you off that you have to be paranoid if some less-computer-savvy friend tells some web site to mail an article to you or sends you an online greeting card? Don't you get annoyed that every e-mail address that you post, no matter for what reason, get spammed?

    Blame the criminals, not the victims.