Spam at a new high!

[gaydemon]

I'm going absolutly nuts.. Spam seems to have reach a new height! Since 2 weeks or so ago the amount of spam has atleast trippled..

Not sure why.. im wondering if its because i just setup a couple of new domains and setup emails for them. however no one would have had those email addresses on any databases.

Do Spam bots target just random domains and email addresses now?

[basschick]

my spam is back to where it was before when that guy was arrested - but it's not at its all-time high for me, thank good. it's still up to 800 to 1200 spam emails per day, though.

yes, spambots do. what's more, i think they must search for domains because if i set up a new email with a common email address like info@domainname.com, admin@domainname.com, webmaster@domainname.com, they start coming right away.

[gaydemon]

Yes, thats it.. I think it must be that they catch new domains and use the most common email names. I got to stop using webmaster@..


my spam is back to where it was before when that guy was arrested - but it's not at its all-time high for me, thank good. it's still up to 800 to 1200 spam emails per day, though.

yes, spambots do. what's more, i think they must search for domains because if i set up a new email with a common email address like info@domainname.com, admin@domainname.com, webmaster@domainname.com, they start coming right away.

[Relentless]

http://www.xbiz.com/news/91659

Soulcash just won their case against the FTC....

Spam is about to increase a LOT very soon unfortunately...

[basschick]

soulcash didn't send any spam, and according to the article, there wasn't even one piece of evidence showing they had knowledge that their affiliates were spamming. i know they have rules against spamming and i believe that soulcash terms affiliates reporting for spamming.

so in order for another program to have soulcash's luck in court, they'd have to have rules against spamming, term affiliates who spam and not send spam themselves.

i guess i'm half asleep - well, i know i am - but how will that particular set of circumstances affect spam mailings?


http://www.xbiz.com/news/91659

Soulcash just won their case against the FTC....

Spam is about to increase a LOT very soon unfortunately...

[Seth]

I'm suffocating in junk mail. I cleared out my junk mail folder the other day which had over 700,000 messages and I already have thousands of new spam messages.

I must download at least 500 a day. That doesn't even include those on my Gmail accounts.

I'm seriously considering ditching all of my Email addresses that I've used for years and starting with new ones. But then it'll be just a matter of time until those are bombarded too. What a pain!

[GTP]

Do Spam bots target just random domains and email addresses now?

sure, they did, from years...

The only way to stop spam is to use some server-based (or client based if you prefer) Bayesian antispam software like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamAssassin or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogofilter

I use it client side (so I can say to the software what is spam and what not and it learn about) but you can ask you hoster to configure them server side too.

[gaybucks_chip]

I mention it now and then, but I really couldn't be happier with Appriver.com's Secure Tide spam filtering. Their spam filtering is very close to 100%, and I've had maybe 2 or 3 false positives in the past 6 months, each of which was easily corrected by adding the domains to the whitelist.

They use a combination of rules, filters, blacklists, and other things, and update their filters dozens of times a day. Without Appriver, I get sometimes 600-700 spams a day. With Appriver, I get maybe 5 or 10 at most. And it blocks phishing, many viruses and trojans and other malware attachments as well.

I don't know what their current "retail" price is, I think it's around $20/month + .75 per mailbox, and they offer a free month trial. If you figure the time you spend scanning through the spam, it's pretty much a no-brainer.

If anyone is interested in it and wants to save a few bucks, we have a reseller account that will save about $10/month.

There are a couple of other services similar to it, but I haven't tried any of the others.

[Relentless]

There will be a lot of "rogue affiliates" out there spamming like crazy who program owners will publicly denounce and quietly profit from.


soulcash didn't send any spam, and according to the article, there wasn't even one piece of evidence showing they had knowledge that their affiliates were spamming. i know they have rules against spamming and i believe that soulcash terms affiliates reporting for spamming.

so in order for another program to have soulcash's luck in court, they'd have to have rules against spamming, term affiliates who spam and not send spam themselves.

i guess i'm half asleep - well, i know i am - but how will that particular set of circumstances affect spam mailings?

[Gaystoryman]

Seems my mornings become more about cleaning out spam, or going through it that it is like a full time job. And I find I get much more spam on my 'non adult' venues than my adult one's, but it is always the 'adult' one's that make the news. (shrug)