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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?"
The Russian created botnets, that spammers use, are busy attacking Georgia. The good news, is that you'll never see spam again. These guys have nukes, and after WWIII, you'll actually be happy to find canned spam in the rubble. Sadly, If "W" was not in office, and our Army wasn't bogged down in a quagmire, those clowns would not have dared trying to stir up sh... er stuff. They're doing it now, because they won't be able to do it later, when we get a real president. And Yes, either Obama or McCain will probably be a real president. There is nowhere to go but up.
Not just the womens', the mens, while not as obvious, seemed really off to me as well.
In greco-roman wrestling one guy thought it was so blatant he threw away his Bronze Medal.
The American girls who won the gold and silver? Those American girls?
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