spam out of control?

[Ken Moffat]

Gary

>Hi Ken,
>
>On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:59:35 -0800 UTC (1/31/2004, 5:59 PM -0600 UTC my
>time), Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>K> Anyone else feel like spam has gotten totally out of control recently? 
>K> I'm getting tons. Much more than I used to.
>
>Do you run your own mail server? The reason I ask, is that I have found that
>my one ISP address (I have never used) gets spam, about two a day, and I
>have 2 accounts with myrealbox.com which I have not used in years. One of
>those receives 30-80 spams per day, when I check them about once a week.
>One, I have not checked in a month, so it will drop off their listing. I
>never get spam on my own server, having several domains, and many users. I
>go to great lengths to put in several steps or levels of spam protection.
>Don't get me wrong, they try plenty <g>
>
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>
I do run my own server but don't get much on it. I keep the addresses 
quiet. But on my regular email address through my isp I get plenty. 
Everyone and his brother sells your email address to anyone who will 
pay. I have created a user on my server named junk at what.ever.com that 
will be used for whatever might result in spam. He's already getting 
lots after only a few weeks.

I do like the new mail filters on Mozilla and Firebird. They seem to work.

-- 
Ken