Another grim milestone

[prog]

6,093 spams in the last 30 days. That's 200 a day, on average.

Comments

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. the whole concept of e-mail is rapidly becoming unusable.

I still like my 'wishful thinking' apprach to dealing with spam. That is -- fine the companies that advertise with spam. I mean... the companies have GOT to be paying SOMEONE to send all this out and if they're giving you their contact info in the spam it should be easy enough to find the source.

Some places 'claim' their stuff isn't spam and if you e-mail a certain address they'll stop sending stuff to you -- how often is this really the case and how often instead is this a 'flag' that you're indeed a real person and that they should send you MORE spam?

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Ack. The first few times I read that, I saw "6,093 spasms", which was... troublesome.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

My Gmail account has 4911 spam messages (it deletes them after 30 days). (And I now forward all mail to any of my addresses to Gmail.) But at least only about 3 or 4 per day slip through their filters so that I have to manually refile.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

But isn't it nice to have a bigger penis?

Seriously though, what are you guys doing on the web? I get maybe two spam per day at best. Perhaps it's just because I don't shop online...

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

You're not alone.


(Opps, forgot a quote mark.)