News Spam doubles in the last year

[WilHarris]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/12...the_last_year/

[DougEdey]

I'm fed up with the stupid stock quotes. They do make for funny reading though when some come through as they have odd stories around them

[Woodstock]

funny, i havent had a single spam message in the last 6 months and have never seen any of this "image spam".

[mclean007]

Originally Posted by Woodstock

funny, i havent had a single spam message in the last 6 months and have never seen any of this "image spam".

Guess you don't have an email address then?

[BioSniper]

I know exactly what they mean. I average 200 spam mails a day to my inbox. Sadly my email address is also being spoofed and used to send spam too. So I get alot of emails replying to <random lettercombination>@<domain>.
Sadly even though I've had that email address for about 7 years now it's to to abandon it

[Atomic]

After 3yrs of getting no spam (Thanks SpamAssassin!) some of the stock quote ones are getting through

Only 1 or 2 a day but its still annoying.

[Almightyrastus]

This is why I have always had a hotmail account for signing up and registering to anything and my ISP provided one for private use with it only being given out to select people and places. I get maybe 1 piece of spam in my isp one every few months and the hotmail one is considerably faster to manage stuff on plus it never comes throguh to get stored on my pc unless I tell it to.

My girlfriend has a couple of websites with guest books and comments sections so she gets drowned in spam and is keeping a daily tally of it all. So far she is up to around 15,000+ spam emails for this year alone, in fact she sees a higher average than the quoted 9 out of 10, around 9.7/9.8 out of 10 would be a better estimate for her even with filters in place.

[dullonien]

I never get spam, maybe one or two a week if I'm unlucky. I'm still quite surprised that I don't get more. I've had the same e-mail addy since 1998-9 and use this e-mail for everything i sign up for, online shops, forums, youtube etc.

The one thing I do though is check thoroughly when signing up for something that I don't allow them or other companies the right to send me e-mails.

My e-mail addy is quite unusual though, that could help a bit.

[stephen2002]

I run a web site, so my main e-mail address is out in the wild, and recently had to pay an extra $33/year for even more spam filtering. The free Spam Assassin that came with the hosting just wasn't cutting it. It used to catch almost everything but recently I have been getting 50 spam messages on a bad day, about half of which got picked up by Spam Assassin. The image e-mails and the stock quotes were constantly getting through. Now my e-mail runs through a Spamalizer server and I get maybe 2 spam messages per day.

In a very sad way Spam helps run the economy. I wonder what the dollar value of the global spam filtering business is.

[plagio]

Originally Posted by dullonien

I never get spam, maybe one or two a week if I'm unlucky. I'm still quite surprised that I don't get more. I've had the same e-mail addy since 1998-9 and use this e-mail for everything i sign up for, online shops, forums, youtube etc.

The one thing I do though is check thoroughly when signing up for something that I don't allow them or other companies the right to send me e-mails.

My e-mail addy is quite unusual though, that could help a bit.

I can't believe it. Maybe your ISP has a good spam filter enabled on your mail account.

[mikeuk2004]

I only get spam from my Yahoo email account. My private domain email I get no spam at all. I only use my Doamin email for friends and online shopping and banking etc. Forums and other random stuff to sign up I use my yahoo email address.

Also if my private email account does start to get overloaded with spam then ill just delete it and create me a new email account as I can have 10,000 email accounts with my domain.

I have a hot mail account for MSN. I have never used the hotmail email address to sign up anything or even doing anything with it. I actually went into the email account for the first time in 2 years and there were thousands of emails in there. All spam. Im glad I dont use it as if thats the amount of spam you can get without using your email account I wonder how much Id get if I used it.

[Lazlow]

At work we get too much spam. For the more recent employees, only a few emails every so often. But for those that have been with the company for a good 5 years+ the spam is bad - I guess their email addresses have been out there long enough to receive so much. I'm looking for an alternative to our host's spam filter, as it's pretty useless...

[Techno-Dann]

I get thirty or forty a day... GMail has good spam filtering. I never even see most of them. I maybe see three or four a week, until I clean out the spam-box.

(Thank goodness for "select all" and "delete selection")

[booya]

In the past 3-6 months, the amount of spam I've gotten in my work account had at least doubled. It's getting ridiculous.

[DXR_13KE]

maybe that "the internet is a series of tubes" guy is right... what if all of this crap was gone? would we get faster internet?

[specofdust]

I get maybe 5-10 pieces of spam on my domain account now. Not entirely sure how I managed it because I only use the email for decent sites and tend not to write it out properly on forums or anything. Still, could be worse I suppose. Mostly stock quotes for me also, some vi@gra ones also.

[DXR_13KE]

hmmmm....... what is "stock quotes" spam?

[r4tch3t]

I have gotten 2 pieces of SPAM in the last year, one was actually spiced ham.

[jezmck]

if I didn't send most of my mail via GMail I would get scary amounts of spam.

[hitman012]

GMail's spam filtering is rather good . It'd be nicer if the problem was tackled at the source, though...