[NBLUG/talk] has anyone else noticed a dramatic drom in spam?

Christopher Wagner chrisw at pacaids.com
Tue Jul 13 15:18:57 PDT 2004


I'm noticing pretty much the same pattern here.

- Chris

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Steve Johnson
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Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] has anyone else noticed a dramatic drom in
spam?



I have actualy been seeing an increase in spame with subject lines like
$74168 and they have been scoritng real low in spam assassin.  Sometimes
even getting a 0.0 score.

Otherwise teh spam load seems to be about the same for me.

-Steve



On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:51:24AM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> I've been trying a different approach to spam management recently, and my 
> incoming spam has dropped from ~300 per day to less than fifty in the last

> five weeks or so.
> 
> Also, the source and nature of the spam is changing very noticeably.
> Less porn, meds and mortgage and almost all of the incoming is new vendors
for 
> 'innocent' stuff: aliminum siding, business opportunities, etc.
> 
> Is it working, or is it a coincidence?
> 
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