Interesting thoughts on spam

[Collins]

On Sunday 28 December 2003 15:01, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Collins wrote:
> > My trash box is now receiving up to 200 pieces of spam per day. 
> > Fortunately, a few simple filter rules have banished 99% of these from
> > sight.
> >
> > I used to just delete them as they came in, but then I discovered that
> > nearly all the atrocious stuff shared common characteristics:
> >
> > 1. An older form of my email address.  My isp changed the domain name for
> > my email about 8 months ago, but continued to forward the old domain to
> > the new domain.  No one I value is using the old address, so bang -
> > they're gone.
> >
> > 2. Most of the rest came from subscriptions to two linux user groups that
> > I no longer monitor, so bang any mail from these two are gone.
> >
> > Since the spammers obviously harvested my email address from one or the
> > other of these two groups a long time ago, it makes me wonder:
> >
> > 1. Is it really safe to subscribe to any group?
> >
> > 2. Why haven't they harvested my current address?
>
> I suspect that it is not safe to subscribe to any group.  I also suspect
> that Doug and company did some work to keep the email addresses on this
> list from easily being harvested.
>
> My best guess is that this list just doesn't generate the volume to
> interest a spammer.  What was the volume like on the lists that got
> scarfed?
>

Volume was practically nonexistent on both of the sites I have associated with 
spam..

-- 
Collins