Me and my Spam...
You emailed me? Sorry I missed it..
Saturday, April 22, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
How much spam do you get? A lot? Let me give you an idea of how much my email account ([email protected]) gets.
Now, you may say, what the hell are you thinking? Why are you putting your email address out there? Am I an idiot? Well yes but that's a different issue entirely. I don't do the [email protected] type thing because as Darth Vader said in Return of the Jedi -- "It's too late for me..."
Long before spam became a real problem, I was on Usenet and zillions of other sites. I used my email address in the clear (like lots of other people). This year marks the 10th year of my email address. In that time, I've gotten on every spam list known to mankind. I've had people purposely sign me up for stuff (flamers - don't bother, I'm already signed up to receive it).
To give you a statistic, yesterday I received 3,914 emails. A typical day. Previously the spam catchers on our server would get about 90% of the spam. Pretty good right? But I'm still stuck with about 400 email per day. Of that 400 email per day, about half of it is spam. Of the remaining 200, about half of it is not spam but are lists and notifications or promotions that are legitimate (i.e. junk mail but not spam). So of the nearly 4000 emails I get, about 100 of it is from people who want a response, presumably that day. Since I've only got about an hour or two per day to dedicate to checking email, that means I don't get to a lot of people. And I apologize.
But that's getting a little better. We just purchased the Barracuda. It's a hardware device that sits in front of your mail server to weed out spam. So far, the results are pretty satisfying. I still get spam, but far far less. Same with everyone else. It's about 3pm today so we're about half way done. So far, our server has received 10,449 emails total. That's everyone. Barracuda has blocked 8,419 of them because they're spam. 1,378 were blocked because they contain virii. 217 were allowed in but were tagged as probably being spam but it wasn't sure. That leaves 418 that it thinks are legitimate (and about 25% of them are still probably spam).
For you numbers fans, that means 96% of the email we get is either spam or virii that is can tell is spam or virii. The remaining 4% still has some spam in it, but it's still more effective (so far) than anything I've used before.
Reply #2 Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:08 PM
Ouch...I'm glad I'm not THAT popular......
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Reply #6 Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:34 PM
Too late for me, too....though not 'quite' at that same order of magnitude.
I used to get a 'heck of a lot', but, with the help of mailwasher [and a number of other mail watchers] and an ISP that appears to be doing 'something' I'm down to just 4 legit and 9 unsolicited/virii/you-need-a-bigger-penjs.....since I hit the hay [2.30AM] to now [10.30AM].
The 4 emails include 3 relating to things here and the fourth is solicited spam, ie. a note from hotmail 'staff'...
There was a time when I'd average 100 per day and of those 2 or 3 were legit....
Reply #7 Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:54 PM
i'm trying out a free service from a site called Blue Security (Link)....i send them my spam (using an extension from thunderbird, but you can report your spam directly from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail etc)...they send out automated cease and desist notices to the offending spammers...it takes a few months to work, but then they say you get a lot less crap in your inbox...you can also protect your domain....i'm a couple of months in, and i do seem to be getting less....
Reply #8 Saturday, April 22, 2006 10:16 PM
4000 emails? Whao
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| #10 by Super Wizop Fuzzy Logic Sun, April 23, 2006 05:41 AM Reply Quote Watch [Fuzzy Logic] Can sum1 tell me how 2 get 1 of these 'bigger penis' e-mails? |
Ummm....it doesn't work.....
Reply #13 Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:05 PM
| Can sum1 tell me how 2 get 1 of these 'bigger penis' e-mails? |
Just do a google search and you'll be inundated with them.....but no matter how many you read......
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Reply #17 Monday, April 24, 2006 7:49 AM
WRONG TIMES
Reply #18 Monday, April 24, 2006 7:49 AM
WRONG TIMES
Reply #19 Monday, April 24, 2006 7:50 AM
| I fall for a lot of offers and some I have tried to enter more than once. |
That's not spam . . . you *ASKED* for it.
Time for a new gmail account.
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Reply #1 Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:57 PM