Today’s spam

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y2kade — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:12:18 GMT

I'm still amazed at how spam is still so prevalent.

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Darren — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:07:18 GMT

As a victim of about 50 spam messages a day (as we probably all are), I couldn't agree more.

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Chrismor — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:41:32 GMT

You only get 50?

My Spam counts are in the hundreds (or more) everyday.

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Paul — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:42:29 GMT

SPAM, what's that, I;ve seen none for 2 years now. I say you're with the wrong ISP, with Internode's filtering, I get zero spam, and never seen more than 1-2 items in my held as possible spam items

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scristian — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:06:45 GMT

A spam email like this crash my email servers where was set auto-reply creating a loop.

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Chris Lehr — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:11:41 GMT

It's not a real screenshot unless you had to edit for content :) I get more porn spam than anything else in my spam boxes now.

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Morgan Storey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:58:23 GMT

There is a lot of these going a round, admitedly I don't see almost any (maybe one a month) in my personal or work email's inbox, they get blocked by my/our 3rd party spam filters.

That being said I checked my personal domain's spam box and I am getting about 5000/month, so count yourself lucky.

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Reza — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:04:00 GMT

It is a good news for user which Outlook and Exchange and in general Microsoft Junk mail filter is powerful enough to stop these bad guys. Steve also pass away his email address for everyone who has a question. Sometimes bad guys are there and want to do something bad. The best practice for fight against spam is to use Anti-spam solution and also try to report spams in Live hotmail and if you chose "join Microsoft customer improvement program" then it will help Microsoft to fight spammer. if you are poor and don't want to buy outlook then if you have Windows Vista then you have Windows Mail with junk filter and if you have Windows XP then you may use Free Microsoft Live Mail (it is for client not Hotmail).

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Matt — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:17:00 GMT

Until e-mail administrators are forced to use something like SPF then this problem is not going away.

Unfortunately most e-mail protocols are insecure by design, and this is why the spammers can function the way they do.

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Alun Jones — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:31:23 GMT

I still maintain that for spam to survive it is not necessary for spammers to make money, it is only necessary for spammers to believe they will make money. As long as the guys selling spamming tools can convince the spammers that the tools will make them money, the spamming tools will be used.

What will change spamming behaviour is to make it appear that spam will lose money. Ignoring spam will not be sufficient - spam must be punished.

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Daniel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:56:54 GMT

If these are the messages that you received in your @microsoft address, shouldn’t the spam emails that seem to come from the microsoft.com domain not even be there ?

It is my opinion that inbound SMTP servers should at least block spam email from the domain they control and only accept email from a list of trusted servers. Do you share this opinion?

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stryqx — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:23:23 GMT

If that's your @microsoft address then some of your ire should be directed at MSIT's way :-)