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November 28, 2003
Spam increasing
I've been tracking the spam I receive on my personal account for a little over a year now (since October 2002).
During that time, the spam I receive has about doubled. Last October I received 1,390 spam messages. This October, 2,214. Last Sept, 798. This Sept, 1,597. This month, I'm on track for over 2,300, more than double the 935 spams received last November.
I've put several spam tools in place to help with this. That keeps down the number of spam messages I actually have to deal with (move into my spam folder) to about 10-20 per day.
Having to manually deal with 100-300 out of 2,000 spam messages each month isn't so bad, but it's getting to be a bother (up until 3 months ago, my spam was automatically filtered by spamassassin). I'm thinking very seriously about starting to implement some more spam-fighting mechanisms, such as disposable addresses and authenticated email senders. I may also need to implement bayesian mail filtering, better than I am doing now. The spammers are getting better at circumventing the spam filters, so time to one-up them again.
Posted by pete at November 28, 2003 10:18 AM
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