OT: Dropping sp4m volume?

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
> Hi all...  Anyone not interested in fighting spam
> can delete now.  :)
> 
> Just curious...  A bunch of us have solutions in
> place, but I just noticed
> something.  My ISP runs SpamAssassin and a witch's
> brew of other things,
> along with your traditional RBL.  This has usually
> resulted in 6000-9000
> messages being snared within every 14 days.
> 
> I put in my own authorisation system a while back,
> and I've been watching
> the numbers that get caught -prior- to hitting my
> scheme (ie., just at the
> ISP level) by 90%.  My last report that came today
> just said 809 messages
> in 14 days at the entry-point level.  It was over
> 11,000 at one point in
> the past, and was holding steady at 8000ish for a
> long, long time.
> 
> The last 6-8 months, it's been creeping steadily
> downward--first to 7000,
> then 6000, 5000, 4000, 2000, and now 800?  
> 
> So has spamming actually slowed, or has my filter
> more or less made it seem
> like my address(es) fell off the map, and I'm just
> less likely to receive
> spam now?
> 
> Anyone else notice whether spam has stayed
> relatively consistent, risen, or
> dropped off in intensity in the last 8-12 months? 
> I'm curious if it's a
> general trend, or if my own blocking may have
> something to do with it.
> 
> Seems odd that spamming would just stop or
> drastically slow all of a
> sudden, especially after the CAN-SPAM act was
> enacted.  So, what are the
> other admins out there seeing in terms of
> consistency of volume?
> 

It is Odd, but I have noticed the same thing on my aol
account that used to get quite a bit of spam.  When I
check the spam folder, there never seems to be
anything there any more. 

I heard yesterday that the DEA made some arrests for
internet drug trafficking. 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050420/ap_on_he_me/internet_drugs_4

It seems that most of the spam that I do get relates
to drugs, so perhaps this will help things further.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest way to generate code for filePro exports and imports.

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