Interesting thoughts on spam

[Matthew Carpenter]

I know.

Since using RBLs and SpamAssassin (and still Bogofilter), I sometimes get lonely :)
The list mail is all filtered to the appropriate folder and Spam is filtered to the SPAM folder just in case.

A friend of mine has been keeping statistics of SPAM for the last year or so.  Upon joining a Yahoo Group, his spam growth went from low-linear growth to explosive parabolic increases each month!

It is a good thing we have intelligent people writing technical spam-solutions.  The Law's are a joke and have as much teeth as a redneck hoedown.

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:05:10 -0800
Collins <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
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