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Where Has All My Spam Gone?
An anonymous reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive all my personal email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real. Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much stopped. My volume of mail has plummeted to less than 100 a day, and as far as I can tell, I'm not missing any real mail — I'm still getting the email list subscriptions I'm expecting, and every time I ask someone to send me a test message, it gets through. My domain host insists that it doesn't do any spam filtering before mail gets to my inbox, and that they've changed nothing about their configuration. I run SpamAssassin on my server to mark, but not delete, spam, and download the whole mess to my home client, and I'm still seeing the occasional message tagged by SpamAssassin. But it's virtually all gone. And I haven't changed anything about my own mail configuration, or the harvestability of my site (my personal email has been harvestable for almost a decade). So what's going on? I can't believe that several major botnets would have vanished overnight. Any ideas?"
Finally, Bill Gates got tired of all the spam, and took care of it as promised.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Okay...I'm going to say this sloooooowwwww. Just because the messages are '...all sent in Dutch,...' has no bearing on the actual destination of those messages. If the sentence said '...all sent in Dutch, to Dutch email addresses...' you would sound a lot smarter right now. It doesn't matter in the least where the hell the botnet was located when you're talking about teh internets...that's why it is such a popular space; it allows us to act superior and snotty toward one another across entire continents. Seems like you're the one who really needs to go back and do the reading.