Andrew Kantor's Place: I don’t want to hear it

I don’t want to hear it

Published 5/25/06

Every now and again I hear people complain about how there were dozens of spams in their Inboxes when they got back from long weekends. Whoopdie-doo.

I use SpamAssassin to stop my spam from coming in, and I send it all to what it calls a “SpamBox” that I can check as a separate e-mail account. While I use Thunderbird for my real mail, I configured Outlook Express to check the Spam account. (I make a quick check to be sure nothing got sucked in.)

Unfortunately, I occasionally forget to check and clean out the SpamBox. In this case, I waited about two weeks. Here’s the result:

The Fray

2 responses (add yours)

gnomic says:

If you just didn’t subscribe to all those MAC newsletters…

May 26th, 2006 at 12:27 PM

Paul says:

Seems to be an occupational hazard if you’ve had a domain name for a while. I was seeing 3000+ spams per *day* until I blocked everything except the specific addresses that are in use. That was about 18 months ago, so it would probably be even higher now :(

The only thing worse than spammers is the tiny percentage of people who are gullible and foolish enough to actually buy their crap and make it worthwhile to spam in the first place…

May 30th, 2006 at 9:58 AM

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