OT: Dropping sp4m volume?

[Bob Stockler]

Mark Luljak wrote (on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:43:33PM -0400):

| Hi all...  Anyone not interested in fighting spam can delete now.  :)
[snipping stuff about spam decreasing]
| 
| 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?

I use IgLou as do you.  I don't _think_ they filter any email
before I pick it up.  But I know they do add to the headers of
my incoming email X-Warning-RBL lines from (or through?) sites
that are on their many blacklists (or sites that maintain black-
lists?).

I use SpamAssassin and assign 2.5 demerits to X-Warning-RBL emails.

I look at the first few messages in the "spam" mailbox where the
email that SpamAssassin rejects goes, and every now and then I
find something important (they're sorted by demerits, low to high).

When I was getting my email using UUCP via phone from IgLou,
sometimes my phone line would be tied up for hours getting
those emails that said they held the latest MicroSoft patches.

When I first got DSL and started getting email the way I do
now, I'd get over 100/day in my spam mailbox.

I now get much less than that, sometimes 20-40, sometime more,
sometimes less, in my spam mailbox.

I've noticed a distinct decrease in spam email reaching me,
though I get a few every day or so that SpamAssassin doesn't
catch (and that _seems_ to be increasing).

Bob

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