Where's The Spam?

[ixie02]

I haven't recieved a single spam in days! This is great. Am I the only one or is it getting better for others too?

[joshcombs]

I still get it, but I am on my own dedicated server haha. I guess I need to revamp the spam program.

-Joshua

[ixie02]

Guess it was just wishful thinking- It's back!

[maytricks]

No spam, LOL, that is more like a fairy tale. Spam will only get worse, never better. It is a big business, and for every person out there trying to stop it, there are 50 sending it to make a buck.

[mresell]

Yeah, I can't say I have ever been completely SPAM free. The only way to do that is to have no email, this works well for telephone solicitors also(no phone=no calls).

[newmem]

I take all precautions not posting my email address anywhere and using graphic image to display my address where I want to. That has always kept my incoming spam at a very low volume. Even then, if your address is in the address book of an infected machine, then you are gonna get 100k of virus-spam.

For that, I have set Outlook Express not to download emails over a certain size, say 99 KB. At end of the week, I login to the web-based interface and delete all the 100k+ emails manually after checking for false positives first.

[dpyers]

Yeah, it started picking up again. Like the tide, it ebbs and flows.

[mresell]

Since, they don't even need to know your email address doesn't matter much. Usually, I only get spam on my webmaster acct. which I sacrifice to the world and it gets filtered so no big deal. I am just used to it after all these yrs.

[achabot]

I had no spam for about 2 or 3 days (at least that's how it seemed). Now it's back in full force. Nice while it lasted.

[ixie02]

When did we start getting all these cialis spams that send you what appears to be chapters from a book - one chapter per spam. I haven't read any of them but I can imagine what they're about. Now if they'd send me a Playboy magazine I just might take a peek!