In most cases, people don't do ANYTHING to get all the spam. For a long time I thought the same thing as you, they must be doing something. I only got 4-5 per day. I figured I was being smart, not putting my address on web pages, not sending it to just anyone, all that.
Then one day about a year ago the inbox got flooded. And it still does. I get 75-100/day, most of them utterly meaningless garbage too. Not even selling anything, just paragraphs of random words. Worse, the past couple of weeks I'm getting Joe-jobbed. By something/one sending out viruses, of all things. Not only do I get to see "no such user" bounces, I get all the really helpful "you must be infected" antivirus replies too. That'd be interesting to see, a Windows virus on my Linux machine... (Most of the headers lead back to.ru, suprise.)
Only thing I can think of, as someone else mentioned, lots of my friends and relatives like sending those mass-mailings with everyone's email exposed. I'm guessing I got stuck in someone's address book, and their machine got infected with something that stole said address book...
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In most cases, people don't do ANYTHING to get all the spam. For a long time I thought the same thing as you, they must be doing something. I only got 4-5 per day. I figured I was being smart, not putting my address on web pages, not sending it to just anyone, all that.
.ru, suprise.)
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Then one day about a year ago the inbox got flooded. And it still does. I get 75-100/day, most of them utterly meaningless garbage too. Not even selling anything, just paragraphs of random words. Worse, the past couple of weeks I'm getting Joe-jobbed. By something/one sending out viruses, of all things. Not only do I get to see "no such user" bounces, I get all the really helpful "you must be infected" antivirus replies too. That'd be interesting to see, a Windows virus on my Linux machine... (Most of the headers lead back to
Only thing I can think of, as someone else mentioned, lots of my friends and relatives like sending those mass-mailings with everyone's email exposed. I'm guessing I got stuck in someone's address book, and their machine got infected with something that stole said address book...
So who knows, you may get lucky soon!
Joe