I am the Most Spammed Person in the World

jefp writes "In November 2004, Microsoft's second-in-command Steve Ballmer made some headlines by mentioning that Chairman Bill Gates was getting four million spams per day. At the time, I was dealing with a little spam problem of my own - I was getting around a million spams per day. I found it a little comforting that my problem wasn't quite as bad as Bill's. However, a couple of weeks later Ballmer corrected himself, saying he mis-remembered the stat and Gates actually gets four million per year. This means I was getting one hundred times as much spam as Bill Gates. I've written a tutorial explaining why I get so much crapmail and how I deal with it."

Bummer dude.

[raolin]

think I'd first get a new email address.

A quick suggestion...

[nganju]

Your name in the posting is a link that resolves directly to your email address.

Don't know what you're doing right now to reduce the spam, but maybe putting your email address on the front page of Slashdot is a step in the wrong direction.

Re:Stop endorsing plagiarism, editors!!!

[zerbot]

Hmm... the article was submitted by jefp, and from the website: © 2005 by Jef Poskanzer. You don't suppose they could be the same person, hmm?

Re:A quick suggestion...

[American AC in Paris]

Don't know what you're doing right now to reduce the spam, but maybe putting your email address on the front page of Slashdot is a step in the wrong direction.

If you're standing in the surf, a little rain ain't gonna matter much...

Re:Fuck Steve Ballmer

[taranova]

I make a simple statement, that is essentially true, but without justification, and I get rated a troll.

Okay, here's some justification:

This man is running a company that is deliberately, though the design of its products, its influence (lobbying) of politicians, attempts to pass or modify laws, and use of the legal system (i.e. lawsuits) trying to reduce people's freedoms!!

I assume the above actions are all recognized and not debateable by most people here. If they are accepted as true, then you must accept that Microsoft (and Ballmer as its lead) are putting corporate interests ahead of democratic ones, and yes even the interests of human rights (both in the 1st and 3rd worlds.)

This is the definition of a fascist. And Americans (and all so-called freedom-loving people) are supposed to despise and be eternally vigilant against such people. Wasn't this the basis of the cry "never again!" after World War II?

In that case, should it not be justified, in fact expected, or demanded, to say Fuck You to such a person? To expect such a person to be jailed, or failing that, executed?

Is our freedom worth so little? Tara Nova

Author is a liar.

[DroopyStonx]

He wasn't getting a million fucking spam a day.

Give me a break... 1/4 as popular as Bill Gates? Doubt it.

Re:Greylisting

[Greyfox]

That makes it much easier to trace the spam, and it forces them to work harder and spend more money in order to spam people. If they use stolen credit card numbers to register the domains, it adds more federal charges that can be brought against them and makes it harder for the cut-rate registrars to provide domains using credit card numbers. None of that is "useless." It would also be straightforward to refuse mail from servers that use spam-friendly DNS providers' name servers, since the cut-rates seem to have a hard time making name servers other than their own authoritative for the domains they register.

Re:What I Use

[Anonymous Coward]

well, dipshit, that's why you don't make up domains with valid top level domains. if you need an address, use [e-mail]. they specifically set up that address for just that purpose.

i wonder why this crap was modded funny.

"h0h0, let's abuse someone's email account because we are too stupid to bother" "h0h0, you're so funny d00d"

fuck off