Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing

dbolger writes: "ZDNet has this brief, but interesting article about how the amount of spam we recieve in our inboxes has increased 650% since this time last year. Nice to know that that anti-spam legislation passed a while back is having an effect (not)." For PINE users, just remember the magic spell: "m s r f a."

Re:pine

[carpe_noctem]

Mutilate Spam Right Fucking Away.

Re: no r...

[Black Parrot]

No r? Since this is a Christmas thread, your subject should have been No l.

Private Spam

[Hougaard]

The only thing I hate more than the professional spam are emails from "friends" (non-geeks) that need to inform me of that latest virus, chainmail or that there is a new update that I should download. People are simply CC'ing their entire address-book whenever they receive something that looks interesting, and thereby creating spam :-(

And don't get me started on stupid christmas chain mails !!

Re:Private Spam

[dgb2n]

But if you forward it to 30 friends, the email system will automatically forward you your $30 gift certificate.

Ugh ...

I hate to say it but...

[smack_attack]

I already found the way to remove 90% of my spam. I just send mail from the following domains to a temp folder:

aol.com
excite.com (dead now, probably a good thing)
hotmail.com
lycos.com
mail.com
safe-mail.net
yahoo.co.uk
yahoo.com

I have a special list of people that are explicitly allowed. I expect to see more filters like this in the future, especially for domains that are known offenders.

Santa Says To Spammer ...

[resistant]

I send you this coal in your stocking in order to have your grimace. No thanks, bye.

Re:What legislation?

[quonsar]

What, pratel, is the anti-spam legislation that has been passed in the US?

what, pray tell, is "pratel"?

Re:the rest of the world...

[Rentar]

Most the spam I get comes through open relays in China, Korea and Japan.

And the phone numbers you should call, or the PO-Boxes you should send the money to, or the incredibbly trustworthy companies you should invest in are located in _______ (insert correct answer here).

Re:Yahoo Spam filters

[Legion303]

Ironically enough, I cut down my spam by about 70% by sending everything with "@yahoo.com" in the headers to my spam directory. Not one false positive to date.

-Legion

Re:Want to incur a LARGE cost on spammers?

[Anonymous Coward]

If people really want to make this effective they should buy one of the bulk email programs and then "Spam" this link to 10,000,000 addresses.

So set your filter to...

[Ungrounded Lightning]

The spammer's ideal email list would include every email address on the planet with the exception of those who are inclined to take action against spam. The spammer doesn't mind the vast majority of people who "just hit delete". If automatic filtering means that those inclined to complain about the spam don't see the spam, then filtering actually helps the spammer.

So set your filter to forward each spam to your congressman. B-) Say, with a nice form-letter about how this showed up in your inbox today and you'd really like the law against unsolicited faxes to be expanded to include spam, with only "opt-in" allowed.

And re-tune it periodically as the congresscritters change their email addresses.

Ahhh.. I love the smell of spam mail in the evenig

[Anonymous Coward]

[ here comes a snowball, but your lameness filter just couldn't stand the junk characters ;)) ]

You just got hit by a snow ball.
It's the beginning of a Great Snowball War 2001/2002
The only rule - don't hit the ones you don't like!
Throw at any person you like and...
if you got hit by a snowball, throw one back
and have your revenge!!

--- don't know about you, guys... I like such spam once in a year :) And be sure, M$ will not get spammed this time!