VanLUG Email Archive
bbarnett@L8R.net
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:45:43 -0800 (PST)
On 01-Jan-99 Brian Edmonds wrote:
> bbarnett <bbarnett@L8R.net> writes:
>> Has anyone noticed a dramatic increase in the level of spam lately?
>
> I figure it's just the usual Christmas rush. I don't bother trying to
> hide my address at all, and am active on some of the most targetted
> newsgroups (net abuse ones). It's probably up a bit, but not the
> highest it's ever been. I figure it's just the rampant commercialism of
> Christmas.
Well, could be I guess... I just really noticed it because its the first spam
I've ever had to my address in a year ;) Oh well, can't keep them away
forever..
>
> I easily dump 50%+ of my spam by filing all mail I receive that does not
> have me in the To/Cc into a separate folder, which I skim through and
> purge every few days. Of course I have to have filing rules for all my
> mailing lists and admin aliases to do this, but it makes things much
> nicer. Some recent spam software seems to be doing direct addressing,
> but that's more expensive for the spammers (they can't piggyback as many
> messages on the same connection), so it's still in a minority.
>
> Brian.
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