North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?
I have to say I think you're doing something wrong somewhere.. excluding official role addresses I receive a handful (15ish?) spam mails per day and I've been using some of my email addresses for years. A couple are used on websites so they are published. Perhaps to an extent I'm lucky, but I watch where I put my email address, tend to use a different user when submitting web forms so I can filter if necessary.. I've noticed the worst offenders for taking email addresses and distributing them are things like search engine submits and online games. All 'official/business' type sites seem to be responsible with their email databases.. Steve On Sun, 5 May 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > We can grit our teeth and make that statement now, when spam is > > (handwave, guess, maybe) 30% of our incoming mail load. > > > > It's going to become a lot harder to make as that percentage > > approaches 99. Which it will, and probably sooner than any of us want > > to think about. > > FWIW, my mother got a new email account a two weeks ago, which I just got > around to setting her machine up to log into this afternoon. There were > 817 pieces of mail in her inbox, of which seven weren't spam. That comes > to 99.14%. I'm sure that'll go down a bit as she begins to use the > account more, but I doubt it'll go down much. For it to go down to 30%, > she'd need to receive 953 pieces of valid email each week, and I'd guess > the actual number, from looking at her prior email account, is closer to > 15. Which would still put us at nearly 97% spam. > > -Bill > > >
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