SPAM levels back up

Michael Hipp Michael
Wed Dec 6 10:25:57 PST 2006


David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Well, I see my 30-day SPAM directory on Google (which dropped to a low
> of about 800 15 days ago) has climbed to over 1500.  Today it reached
> an all-time high and shows no signs of backing down.
> 
> I'm willing to bet if we could convince the unwashed masses to use
> Linux (or frankly, anything but M$ crap) we'd drop to an all-time low.
>  Figure the odds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html?ex=1323061200&en=d2c6bcfd3354cbaf&ei=5088partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

I'm getting a lot of these images-as-text spam lately. Mostly some crook 
hyping some worthless stock. They go right past Thunderbird's filters.

Michael



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