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trigen_killer
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:37 pm
Posts: 835
Location: North Wales UK
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Hi. My normal level of spam mail has recently been in the region of 200-300 mails a day. When we came back from a two week holiday two years ago, we had several thousand e-mails to sort through, but it hasn't been that bad for a while. This week, however, I am getting no more than about twenty spam emails a day. I have had a quick Google for news results on this matter, to see if this is an Internet-wide crackdown, or if my ISP (Orange) is making more of an effort and there is nothing obvious there. Does anyone know if I've just got lucky, or is there something much larger going on? Some of you might remember that I am using Mailwasher, so I do see most of the mail sent to me. Although several domains are blocked on the Orange server, new ones crop up every single day. I don't think that I've had it so good since the first few months of using the 'net.  _________________My lowest spec operational system- AT desktop case, 200W AT PSU, Jetway TX98B Socket 7, Intel Pentium 75Mhz, 2x16MB EDO RAM, 270MB Quantum Maverick HDD, ATI Rage II+ graphics, Soundblaster 16 CT2230, MS-DOS/Win 3.11 My Flickr
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:20 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
Posts: 7173
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I only get one or two per day arriving into my Google Mail accounts - be they hosted on my domains or Gmail. And even then they get automatically sorted into the Junk Mail folders. 
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:29 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
Posts: 45931
Location: Belfast
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With Hotmail I'm seeing more and more spam hit my inbox. Gmail, more and more going to the junk folder... Even my VM inbox gets more spam now  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:34 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
Posts: 5071
Location: Manchester
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I get about 3-4 a week with hotmail.
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:39 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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I don't get any on my Hotmail, but my Gmail gets *looks* 50 so far today. The filter is pretty good though, only the very occasional false-positive.
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm
Posts: 1057
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Well I've noticed our spam has decreased markedly at work. We used to get around 5000 spam emails a day  but now down to under 3000. _________________
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:55 pm |
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am
Posts: 2967
Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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Don't think there's anything special going on. I've just switched servers and am getting less spam than usual. However, training the new server in spam is leading to massive amounts of acai spam which I was never getting before. Think it's just coincidence though.
Also, the new server rejects mail that isn't sent to a specific account, whereas the last one just forwarded it to me as the postmaster.
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:59 pm |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
Posts: 3527
Location: Portsmouth
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What is acai spam? Or is it something I don't want to know about?
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| Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:34 pm |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
Posts: 6355
Location: IoW
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Haven't the yanks shut down some big league spam bosses recently?
Plus ISPs are getting better at filtering at the server side. Well, they are if you believe their bumph.
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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| Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:06 am |
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phantombudgie
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:45 pm
Posts: 994
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I had noticed a spike in spam about a week ago. That is to say, about 4 got through the server in a couple of days, as opposed to my usual 1/month or less. Nothing at the moment.
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| Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:23 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
Posts: 45931
Location: Belfast
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Yeah, I get those in my Gmail account, it reads like some sort of 'supplement', 'Acai berry' is often one of the email titles. Must Google that later actually... EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acai_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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| Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:22 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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I haven't had any spam at work yet... But we have a Symantec hardware filter and GData Mail Gateway software.
My Hotmail gets about 1 or 2 spams a year (the account has been running since 1995)-
My Gmail hasn't received a single email yet - spam or not.
My me.com and private domains also don't really get any spam.
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"Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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| Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:51 am |
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
Posts: 2020
Location: Mute City
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my highest is 5 spams in one day, but generally its about 1or 2 spams. no spams yet today, i hope they havent forgotten about me, i feel left out 
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