On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:27:30 +0000, axel wrote: > I don't know how much spam other people receive but on one account I > hardly receive any as I reserve it for friends and business. On another > I had about 40 spam messages which took all of ten seconds to delete. > Hardly a serious matter.
Can I remind you that spam is approximately 70% of all email traffic these days? Most of that is blocked by the ISPs, but even so you are obviously one of the lucky few. My home address, which I cunningly will not give you, used to get about fifty spams a day until I changed ISPs and email addresses. That would quadruple for a week or so whenever one of my Windows-using friends would get infected by a virus. My current home address only gets about one a month, which is what I consider acceptable. My work email address, on the other hand, is another story. We run a two layer defence: blocking blacklisted addresses at our mail server, and spam assassin at the individual user level. Even with that, I get about 100 spams a day delivered into my inbox, although many of those are addressed to generic email addresses which are automatically forwarded to me. Four years ago, one of our sys admins accidentally turned off the blacklisting at the mail server. In the ten minutes it took to get it turned back on, the CEO of our company received eight hundred spams. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
