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For the first time I had to wade into my Gmail spam box (30-day population: 6641) to fetch a communication from the state. It was about five pages in. I'm relived that I found it, since I was expecting it yesterday morning and was wondering at its absence; holding my nose and diving into the spambucket was a last-resort measure. I'm angry that the activity it was part of, already overdue, is made two days later as a result of these jabbeirng fuckwads.
On the upside, I was able to approximate the time at which the volity mailserver went down yesterday by looking at the stamp of the last spam I received, since they're about five to ten minutes apart now on average. Spam Ping!
To answer questions asked the last time I posted about spam: I didn't get hardly none at all until I started using eBay regularly in 2000. This began a gradually accelerating upward curve of spam I received, and it was all just mathematics after that.
I have never changed my personal email address since getting my own domain in 1998. Nor have I ever made any attempt to obfuscate that or any other address I use, because I have always found that sort of thing a bit precious, somehow. So I may be paying for that, too.
Do you remember back when the entirety of Usenet was in an uproar because someone sent out a spam? T-shirts were made to show the community outrage at receiving a single unsolicited commercial post. Wow.
On the upside, I was able to approximate the time at which the volity mailserver went down yesterday by looking at the stamp of the last spam I received, since they're about five to ten minutes apart now on average. Spam Ping!
To answer questions asked the last time I posted about spam: I didn't get hardly none at all until I started using eBay regularly in 2000. This began a gradually accelerating upward curve of spam I received, and it was all just mathematics after that.
I have never changed my personal email address since getting my own domain in 1998. Nor have I ever made any attempt to obfuscate that or any other address I use, because I have always found that sort of thing a bit precious, somehow. So I may be paying for that, too.
Do you remember back when the entirety of Usenet was in an uproar because someone sent out a spam? T-shirts were made to show the community outrage at receiving a single unsolicited commercial post. Wow.