anyone notice a decline in spam emails since U.S senate approved the new anti-spam bill?


cos i have recieve NONE - i repeat ZERO spam emails since ... and thats down from about 3 a day - minimum.

3 a day is dick all, i have had so many email accounts that have died in the butt because of spam.. but no i havnt noticed a difference.

I get like 150+ in my hotmail a day. What's even more annoying is when it features my real name, which I only give out to places I thought I could trust.

not really, to tell you the truth, i never used to get any spam anyway.

i used to get about 7 a day, and then it stopped (but about a month b4 the anti spam stuff) - i still get between 1-3 a day and it pisses me off

I haven't got any since the bill was passed either... but then again I normally only get about 5 a month

Spam went down a bit when they busted that guy a few weeks back.

It's up again now.

Mine's gone up recently

I get like 150+ in my hotmail a day. What's even more annoying is when it features my real name, which I only give out to places I thought I could trust.

I don't think I've ever put my real name on any internet site that asks for it (except maybe here or something). The ones I have put it on but can't remember, it's usually just my first name, which is so common it isn't funny so it doesn't really bother me :)

I'm about 30-40 a day on my optus account, rather annoying. Most filter out with simple rules but they're getting harder to sort out. My work email has been harvested too (off our website presumably) but i only get like 1 a week on that.

I get maybe 1 a week tops.

Hotmail gets a few but they all get blocked now.

I can honestly say I have recieve 0 spam mail in my mail in the past 24 months.

Maybe I am just lucky. As I use my e-mail for almost everything on the net :D

yeh i get about 30 - 50 a day in hotmail. i dont have another account cept for my UQ one which is too hard to remember. and i've been using hotmail for ages so i have 100's of saved emails in there that i really dont wanna lose.

shotty do u have a really abstract email addy?

no, im getting more

weird ones now

used to get viagra ones all the time, now im getting american chemists wanting to sell me prescription drugs in my email

I never use to get any, but for the last week or so, I have received 5 spam e-mails :(

Virtual Makeover create a gorgeous new you in seconds Thu 30/10 7k
EM someone wants to meet you Thu 30/10 2k
AIU Online Degree in Months Thu 30/10 9k
New Car Clearance get your new car quote Thu 30/10 5k
FDC one click debt consolidation


Thats some of them :P

Spamming is definately on the increase, and I would believe Bigpond's excuses about it causing their mail servers to behave the way they are now. Sure they should have had the capacity to deal with it, but obviously they didn't.

On my mail server with about 15,000 mailboxes for the month of April 4,037,657 emails were received of which :
- 1,178,305 Bounced
- 201,597 Rejected
- 107,404 Spamassassin
- 23,445 Virus

For the month of October of this year, those figures were 8,363,391 total incoming
- 2,293,646 Bounced
- 41,363 Rejected
- 131,101 Spamassassin
- 60,268 Virus



Bounced : approx 90% of these are SPAM sent from a dictionary style spam attack, or spam to accounts that no longer exist.
Rejected: Match rules in the message headers that detect obvious spam
Spamassassin: Received a score of over 5.0 from SpamAssassin, not all customers have spamassassin enabled on their mailbox.
Virus: Detected and removed infected attachment by Virus Scanner

That's correct, in 6 months, incoming mail has doubled, and the number of emails bounced have doubled. I shudder to think
about how many emails bigpond must be processing as a result. Also of note viruses have almost tripled!

In conclusion ... Spam has increased at an incredible rate.

No way, I read on Whirlpool that this so-called increase in spam was just an excuse by Telstra for mail being backlogged - I don't believe your so-called 'statistics'

Sorry trog, I stand corrected.

if it was oh teh intraweb it must be true!