In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any changes,
anyone else seen this change?

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:49:49 -0500, "wayne mak"
wrote:
In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any changes,
anyone else seen this change?
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Your ISP may have installed or updated their spam blocker.

Uncle George

It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that guy
in the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:

In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any changes,
anyone else seen this change?

David Billington wrote:
It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that guy
in the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:

In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?


Not really but i've kept myself under the radar anyhow i still get my 10
a day

I'm just enjoying how quickly the signal to noise ratio improves in this
newsgroup when you turn on a filter to refuse any message with Bush or
Iran in the title if i could only set it to remove any message
crossposted to anything in alt.politics i'd be in heaven

My local ISP (Seanet)is so good, I rarely see more than a couple a day
for the last several years. You guys that get dozens a day are getting
poor service for your money.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

wayne mak wrote:
In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any changes,
anyone else seen this change?




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Last time that happen was when Katrina took out the cesspool in New Orleans.
Or was that when it made a cesspool?

"Brent Philion" wrote in message
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David Billington wrote:
It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that guy in
the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:

In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?


Not really but i've kept myself under the radar anyhow i still get my 10 a
day

I'm just enjoying how quickly the signal to noise ratio improves in this
newsgroup when you turn on a filter to refuse any message with Bush or
Iran in the title if i could only set it to remove any message crossposted
to anything in alt.politics i'd be in heaven

Try XNews - a freebie available on download.com - that you can set to either
(1) ignore *all* cross-posted messages or (2) those cross-posted to more
than a given [user-determined] number of groups.

Read about it at
http://www.download.com/Xnews/3000-2...ml?tag=lst-0-1 .

Will it act as an email client too?

THe problem with crossposting is a LOT of messages in here are equally
valid crossposted to sci.engr.joining.welding or alt.machines.cnc

but iron isnt a part od a polical party =)

RAM³ wrote:
"Brent Philion" wrote in message
...

David Billington wrote:

It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that guy in
the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:


In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?


Not really but i've kept myself under the radar anyhow i still get my 10 a
day

I'm just enjoying how quickly the signal to noise ratio improves in this
newsgroup when you turn on a filter to refuse any message with Bush or
Iran in the title if i could only set it to remove any message crossposted
to anything in alt.politics i'd be in heaven


Try XNews - a freebie available on download.com - that you can set to either
(1) ignore *all* cross-posted messages or (2) those cross-posted to more
than a given [user-determined] number of groups.

Read about it at
http://www.download.com/Xnews/3000-2...ml?tag=lst-0-1 .

Mike wrote:
Last time that happen was when Katrina took out the cesspool in New Orleans.
Or was that when it made a cesspool?



well we need something to wipe boca raton Fla off the map

i dont know who or what but it IS the spam capital of the world.

I dont know who created the situation o make it that way but it happens
ot be the physical location that creates the most spam

Brent Philion wrote:
David Billington wrote:

It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that guy
in the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:

In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?


Not really but i've kept myself under the radar anyhow i still get my 10
a day
TEN?!?! I get about 300 a day! But, I post on a lot of newsgroups,
easy prey for those fishing for live email addresses. About half of
those are easily filtered.

Jon

"Mike" wrote in message
...
Last time that happen was when Katrina took out the cesspool in New
Orleans.
Or was that when it made a cesspool?

I agree. I notice a drastic drop in spam after the storm. Not to
worry----others are now taking the place of the lost stuff.

Harold

Jon Elson wrote:
Brent Philion wrote:

David Billington wrote:

It does seem down, I agree. The last time I noted it was when that
guy in the US was jailed for spamming.

wayne mak wrote:

In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?


Not really but i've kept myself under the radar anyhow i still get my
10 a day

TEN?!?! I get about 300 a day! But, I post on a lot of newsgroups,
easy prey for those fishing for live email addresses. About half of
those are easily filtered.

Jon
this email is used for usenet and usenet only but i'm very careful wiht
the ones i care about. I reactiviated this email addy a month ago having
not checked it for FIVE years and NEVER given it away

and it had 200 spams

JR North wrote:

My local ISP (Seanet)is so good, I rarely see more than a couple a day
for the last several years. You guys that get dozens a day are getting
poor service for your money.
JR

ISP filters tend to flag commercial messages that I want to recieve.
My delete key is faster than logging on to ISP's filter site and
flagging what I want that they impounded.


Wes S
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Lycos address is a spam trap.

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:49:49 -0500, wayne mak wrote:
In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any changes,
anyone else seen this change?

I only get one or two through the filters a day, but the "bucket" has
been much smaller in the last couple days, yeah. Spamcop lets me manage
my own rulesets, and I haven't changed anything, so it seems to be down.

Strangely so, yes. was climbing in the weeks before to about double the
average over the last year then almost nothing for the past several days.
Just Odd.

StaticsJason

"wayne mak" wrote in message
...
In the last 3 days my spam mail has all but gone? I didn't make any
changes, anyone else seen this change?

According to StaticsJason :
Strangely so, yes. was climbing in the weeks before to about double the
average over the last year then almost nothing for the past several days.
Just Odd.

Could it have been impacted by the new Kama Sutra virus? I know
that most spam these days is sent out by compromised machines.

Hmm ... perhaps what is needed is a "beneficial virus" which
confers immunity to the other ones. That would reduce the number of
sources of spam. :-)

And I've been noticing for about the last month that a number of
sites which I have in my normal IP-based blocklists to refuse smtp
(e-mail) connections have been ignoring the refusals, and continaully
trying -- at the rate of one or two thousand attempts per hour. Since
these are refused, I have no idea whether they are virus infection
attempts, or spam. In either case, I have taken extra steps to make my
e-mail machines vanish from the net as far as they are concerned. (And
*all* of my machines vanish for some attacks, which try to find ssh
logins with all kinds of likely and unlikely usernames, and who knows
what as passwords.

Anyway -- spam seems to be on the order of 10-20 per day for me
right no, with about 90% of it automatically shuttled off to a
"purgatory" folder for checking whether something real got in there and
needs rescuing, and the rest gets processed to add to the IP based
blocklists. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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According to StaticsJason :
Strangely so, yes. was climbing in the weeks before to about double the
average over the last year then almost nothing for the past several days.
Just Odd.

Could it have been impacted by the new Kama Sutra virus? I know
that most spam these days is sent out by compromised machines.

My best guess is that with the publicity surrounding the Friday K.S.
activation lots of otherwise apathetic people updated their antivirus
software and cleaned house. Perhaps it took a bit for spammers to recover
the lost nodes elsewhere. And now they are back with a vengance today.

Hmm ... perhaps what is needed is a "beneficial virus" which
confers immunity to the other ones. That would reduce the number of
sources of spam. :-)

Hmmm. A viral antivirus utility. With the large number of people who either
don't know or don't care about proper security I imagine it would take
something like this to come close to eradicating spam from unwitting
senders. =) Bit of a catch 22 though, could create a future problem to fix
a current problem if someone later piggybacked something malicious on it.

And I've been noticing for about the last month that a number of
sites which I have in my normal IP-based blocklists to refuse smtp
(e-mail) connections have been ignoring the refusals, and continaully
trying -- at the rate of one or two thousand attempts per hour. Since
these are refused, I have no idea whether they are virus infection
attempts, or spam. In either case, I have taken extra steps to make my
e-mail machines vanish from the net as far as they are concerned. (And
*all* of my machines vanish for some attacks, which try to find ssh
logins with all kinds of likely and unlikely usernames, and who knows
what as passwords.

Anyway -- spam seems to be on the order of 10-20 per day for me
right no, with about 90% of it automatically shuttled off to a
"purgatory" folder for checking whether something real got in there and
needs rescuing, and the rest gets processed to add to the IP based
blocklists. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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I've been getting a lot with an unknown date, making filtering
impossible.

On 8 Feb 2006 03:37:18 -0800, carneyke wrote:
I've been getting a lot with an unknown date, making filtering
impossible.

Actually, that makes filtering for that, very easy. No valid email will
ever come in that way; toss anything with invalid date. If your spam
filter doesn't let you do that, get a better one.