Has Spam Stabilized?
from the a-brief-respite dept
Could it be? Instead of continuing its devouring of all email, could spam actually be stabilizing? That’s the claim from one anti-spam firm who says for the past three months, the percentage of email they believe is spam has stayed relatively constant rather than its usual pattern of growing ever larger. Could we dare to dream of a day when the amount of spam actually decreases? Chances are, of course, that this is just a temporary plateau, and the spam will start jumping up again, because (apparently) the world just doesn’t have enough fake Rolex watches.
Comments on “Has Spam Stabilized?”
Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
I don’t know what those guys are smoking, but the level of spam at my domain has doubled in the last three months. Despite taking all the usual precautions, I’m getting >7,500 pieces a day. Most are shotgunned at random names, or bounces from forged headers, but that doesn’t make it any less of a PITA.
Re: Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
7500 spams a day?!? I’m upset if my domains get three spams per day, and I promote one of them quite a bit on Pocket PC sites. How many users have E-mail addresses on your domain? I’m the only user on mine, so maybe that helps.
My biggest fear is somebody doing a dictionary attack on my domain and getting thousands of spams at once. Fortunately, it hasn’t happened yet (although a virus did send to a few nonexistent addresses) and it’s now illegal under CAN-SPAM (although we know how well spammers pay attention to that).
My biggest hope is that the nine-year sentence handed down to that North Carolina spammer will at least scare some of them off.
Re: Re: Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
I’m the only user, but I’ve had the domain for ~10 years. I just used different usernames to identify traffic sources.
You get less than three Spam per day?! I get more than that on a Yahoo account whose address has never seen the light of day.