Anyone notice the dramatic decline in spam e-mail lately?

[ukulele]

I suspect this is related to the nimda worm. No sane net-citizen in their right mind would now click on a spam link. This may go down in history as the first computer worm with a good side. The sudden and dramatic decline in spam mass mailing certainly helped to counter the negative effects of lost bandwidth that the virus nimda unleashed. I suspect many of the spamers were involved in tax fraud and wisely decided to pull in the chips and the rest just got no business at all. I don’t know about you, but I am more reluctant to click on a hyper-link to even subscribed sites. Don’t call me paranoid. I could plug in another drive with a clean OS in minutes. I am just too lazy to bother unless the link has any utility to me at all. Perhaps this decline is an indication of a more mature and conservative use of available bandwidth. The problem herein lies that a percentage of the unsolicited e-mail is conductive to overall net economics. In order to insure a free flow of information unsolicited e-mail should never be blocked in a world wide web for obvious reasons. The bandwidth necessary to effectively make spam cost effective becomes a valuable commodity. Spam has been tolerated for then bucks. Now we must dictate to the media what we are willing to compromise to evolve to the next step, which is a secure and productive internet . The media will decide what is best for them and the major factor will be negotiable green backs. Any comments?

[Cruez]

Mine had probably tripled in the last 2 months....I hate going through 10 email accounts getting rid of garbage:mad:

[club_med]

Luckily I never get spam, I hope it stays that way.

I used to have some Hotmail accounts, now those were infested with spam!.

I've been very careful as to how I give out my e-mail address since then.

[bhess]

Not me. I've been getting hammered lately.

[daveleau]

Mine's up too

[fshanda]

Hammered as well.

fshanda:(

[prttybean]

My hotmail account is spam city. My RoadRunner account is still clean though.

[fshanda]

Hammered as well. I have been getting an average of 3 per day and all selling the same junk. I dont need viagara, stock picks, vacation property, online degrees or any of the junk they keep trying to get me to buy.

fshanda:(

[jad1097]

It's worse than ever. 30-50 a day.

[BFlurie]

Mine on AOL has gone down considerably since the "incident". Perhaps AOL is making a token effort to slow it down. Plus, telemarketer phone calls have gone down.

[Mr.Goodbytes]

It seems to be about the same on my yahoo account, which is about the only one to get spam. My @home accounts only get mail that I've signed up for (Now that's a miracle). And my hotmail account is too young to find spam on it's own yet.

[prttybean]

LOL, anyone else getting spam from Sears? ***Free*** Estimates on Windows and Doors!!!!

[Steve R Jones]

Too much spam. Heck, even the SirCam viruses I still getting sent to me have gone from 300kb to 1.5 megs..Really su__s on dialup.

[ukulele]

Wow! This response is amazing. I had no idea the problem was worse in the mainland. Lucky I live in Hawaii. I have never used a hotmail account and was getting more and more spam every day. Since Sept 12, 2001, I recieved only a couple. In the last week I got none at all. I quess this shoots my theory to hell. I refuse to log on to any proxy servers. Maybe that is the key to secure e-mail in America. I think I'll stick with my local ISP for now. We don't have broadband where I live but I don't know if I even want it now.

[Scorpio69]

I seem to be getting more as well.

Maybe someone can help with a problem I am having lately regarding spam. I funnel several email accounts all into MS Outlook. Sometimes I want to be removed from someone's list but the To: field indicates "Undisclosed Recipients". I can't even tell which one of my mail accounts it came from! Anybody know how to resolve this. I certainly don't want to give them ANOTHER email to start spamming!

BTW - PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - If you are running IE older that 6 (5.0, 5.1, 5.5) Make sure you run windows update and download critical updates for these.

[S.D.Willie]

*deleted* i wish i would stop getting spammed!!!!! :p

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[strangerstill]

Yeah, that's the only one I get with any regularity. Although I do have a 'junk mail' account which I use on a single-use basis & then set to delete from server.

[struggles]

My spam has tripled in the last two weeks!! WTF?? My blocked senders list must be a mile long, although blocking them works for only about a day or two.

:mad:

[tarpat1]

Yeah right I wish......:mad:

[Scorpio69]

All I have to say is: If getting spam <deleted.>... spam away!

Are you referring to the <deleted> by any chance?

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[club_med]

Forget spam, get yourself <deleted> from M$!

[griobhta]

Well I am a bit sick of being offered a University Diploma. a Degree is plenty as far as I am concerned and while I do like asian women I am quite happy with the women in my life at the moment :) .

But seriously though I have found a significant increase in spam over the last five months. Email accounts that I have had for going on 5 years that have been clear for the most part have not started to get hit regularly. Also ICQ was hit by a storm but once I switched of the pager messages that was that.

Griobhta

[club_med]

Yes I had to do the same with ICQ.

[LostBok]

mine's pretty much the same - at the usual 1 per hour....

no idea how they get the addresses!

the accounts that I hand out everywhere only get 10-20 per day, while my main private account gets 25-50 per day!! I think I had those backstabbing Aureate #@%##@'s on my computer while that was my main mail account... really reluctant to give it up...


I reckon people ought to get together and set up a DOS attack on any company that pays marketing companies to use e-mail spam! If they want to make our e-mail unusable and unpleasant to use, then we'll make their web-site's unusable!!

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

I use my aol account for spam and mass mailing so now I just dont check it unless I am really bored. All my other accounts are pretty much clean since I dont fill them out on webpages ( other than this one :) )

Scorpio69:
You need to setup a "rule" in Outlook. Tell it to Move the e-mail to a specified folder as soon as is comes in through a specified account. If for some reason filtering by accounts is not possible, then you can only filter by who the e-mail was sent to, wich in your case doesnt help. Although, you could setup a rule and tell it to move all e-mail that wasnt sent to any of you real e-mail addys to a junk folder or maybe tell it just to delete those on arrival.

Outlook 97 98 rules (http://www4.eas.asu.edu/operations/faq/rules.htm)

Outlook 2000 rules (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/2/12.ASP)

[Praetorian]

I keep getting hit with tons of spam on my AOL account and viruses on another address. My main address is pretty much free of that trash.

[Scorpio69]

Thanks for the info, Mojo. I'll look into that.

That was a pretty fascist thing to do Fingers. I really wasn't being very offensive, was I? Certainly not profane in the least. Whatever. (BTW, if you returned your PM’s I’d have sent this message that route.)