Spam Rant

[Ebby]

ShweetJeebus! I woke up to over 10,000 spams today. IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS!
http://www.ssba.com/lad/lottaspam.jpg

Now, I have a carpload of filters in Mozilla (over 56) and this system does a good job of weeding out some of the bigger nuisances, but my E-mail is routinely getting shut off by this last wave of spam. All the spam comes from "Thomas Peter von Bahr" at 12:00 so it is easy to filter out, but danm that's a lot of spam! :eek:

Anyone else getting this new wave? I would love to forward ALL them all back to him, but I think I would be hurting innocent people's mailboxes if I do.

[propellerhead]

Want to know something funny? I've never gotten a single spam email since I started my then new email address nearly two years ago.

:p :D :D

[DMBand0026]

That's not funny. He's gonna come kick your butt now.

I've never gotten that amount of spam, ever. I haven't even gotten that amount total, let alone all at one time.

Mail's spam filter gets everything. It's been 6 months since I've had one slip through. And I get maybe one or two pieces a month.

[Ebby]

My problem is not really downloading and deleting the spam, since I have a good system of getting rid of it. My problem is that the spam fills up my mailbox before I download and filter it. I don't think any mail program can fix this problem because they filter only after the mail is downloaded.

Oh, and I'm not in a butt-kicking mood. Yet, anyways... ;)

[propellerhead]

Oh, and I'm not in a butt-kicking mood. Yet, anyways... ;) Hah! :D Hey, maybe the RIAA found out your email... ;) :p

[staph]

My problem is not really downloading and deleting the spam, since I have a good system of getting rid of it. My problem is that the spam fills up my mailbox before I download and filter it. I don't think any mail program can fix this problem because they filter only after the mail is downloaded.

Oh, and I'm not in a butt-kicking mood. Yet, anyways... ;)

Good ISPs will filter obvious spam on the server... maybe you should shop around for an ISP with proper spam filtering?

[ShiggyMiyamoto]

If you think getting 10 thousand spams in less than a day is bad.. then imagine how these (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3834919.stm) people feel.... Whoa.

[Luca]

I read here (http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:f72x5XTyK4wJ:www.guppylake.com/~nsb/LotusAntispam03292004.pdf&hl=en) that as few as 20 people could be responsible for 80 or 90% of the world's spam email.

If we ever found these people, I think they should be executed on the spot. The amount of time and money lost, not to mention frustration, is more than enough to justify it.