Sudden miracle
 

For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no spam
at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?

Re: Sudden miracle
 

hleegee wrote:

> For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had
> to manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two
> weeks, although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been
> almost no spam at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came
> about?

Perhaps your mail server has tightened up its filtering, or hired a
different service to do this.

But now that you have published your email address in Usenet, you will
now likely receive LOTS more of it. The spammers scrape Usenet looking
for new victims all the time. Even though it is too late, you should
learn to munge your address so it doesn't continually get harvested.

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Re: Sudden miracle
 

On 2007-06-15, hleegee <hleegee@adelphia.net> wrote:
> For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
> manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
> although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no spam
> at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?

Perhaps your email service provider instituted effective spam blocking for
themselves.

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Re: Sudden miracle
 

"hleegee" <hleegee@adelphia.net> wrote:

>For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
>manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
>although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no spam
>at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?
>

A top spammer was arrested
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626033

Like to think that had something to do with it.



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Re: Sudden miracle
 

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:25:34 -0700, Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov wrote:

> "hleegee" <hleegee@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>>For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
>>manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
>>although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no spam
>>at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?
>>
>
>A top spammer was arrested
>http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626033
>
>Like to think that had something to do with it.

It will take a long time to clean up all his zombies. You can't arrest
them!

Re: Sudden miracle
 

"hleegee" <hleegee@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:S8SdnRdV_PP7Pe_bnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@adelphia.com ...
> For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
> manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
> although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no
> spam at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?

Let's see, the spammer Lindhardt is on the ropes in court, the spammer
Soloway is in jail, the spammer Alonzo Villanueva is in trouble with the
law, and there are a few others that have recently been anally probed by the
long arm of the law.

Oh, and the FBI started Operation Bot Roast, which targets spammers using
botnets.

Re: Sudden miracle
 

Borked Pseudo Mailed wrote:
> "hleegee" <hleegee@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:S8SdnRdV_PP7Pe_bnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@adelphia.com ...
>
>>For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
>>manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
>>although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no
>>spam at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?
>
>
> Let's see, the spammer Lindhardt is on the ropes in court, the spammer
> Soloway is in jail, the spammer Alonzo Villanueva is in trouble with the
> law, and there are a few others that have recently been anally probed by the
> long arm of the law.
>
> Oh, and the FBI started Operation Bot Roast, which targets spammers using
> botnets.

Them G Men sure have a sense of humor.

Re: Sudden miracle
 

hleegee wrote:
>
> For months, if not years, even with a spam-filtering program, I've had to
> manually delete at least 20 pieces of spam daily. For the past two weeks,
> although legitimate messages are coming through, there's been almost no spam
> at all. Anybody got any idea how this miracle came about?

Your email supplier may have installed an anti-spam filter.

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