edition.cnn.com— The number of "spam" messages has tripled since June and now accounts for as many as nine out of 10 e-mails sent worldwide, according to U.S. email security company Postini.
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Hmm, let's see:547,903,205 + 501,295,758 = 1,049,198,963Is there some new math that doesn't add those two numbers up to over a million?Nothing better than someone issuing a demand to be critical thinkers when they cannot even add.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work EVEN IF you never give away your address AND you are lucky enough to not have any friends do the same. If your email address is remotely easy to remember because it resembles a real word, you will eventually fall victim to someone's dictionary spam. My address is a mispelled word, and I started getting spam before *EVER* using it and telling anyone about the address. For this to work, your non-spam address has to be almsot as secure as a password...It seems my spam level just jumped over the break again...
i like spamarrest.com - you can whitelist your important addresses & domains first. Then anybody not on the list has to do a challenge/response. Some people don't like 'em but it solved my spam problem.
The fact of the matter is that spam is never going to stop. Once you find a way to stop one form of it, out comes a new updated version that bi-passes the protection you have. The only way it can forever stoped is if people stop clicking on those spam links. There needs to be a development of a software that eliminated all spam.
Thanks! I gave you a digg. I also found BoxTrapper. It seems to work OK once I realized that it can handle regular expressions (undocumented, but it works).
If 9 out of 10 are spam then my current filter is doing ok but not great. I still get plenty of emails every day that are spam. However, the spam craze has influenced me to opening a gmail account as a permanent address because there is little or no spam on that account.
boamanNov 28, 2006
Amazingly accurate for me. I just checked good email vs spam for the last 4 months and it was 9.6% good.
jerbakerNov 28, 2006
Hmm, let's see:547,903,205 + 501,295,758 = 1,049,198,963Is there some new math that doesn't add those two numbers up to over a million?Nothing better than someone issuing a demand to be critical thinkers when they cannot even add.
socaldissidentNov 28, 2006
Unfortunately, that doesn't work EVEN IF you never give away your address AND you are lucky enough to not have any friends do the same. If your email address is remotely easy to remember because it resembles a real word, you will eventually fall victim to someone's dictionary spam. My address is a mispelled word, and I started getting spam before *EVER* using it and telling anyone about the address. For this to work, your non-spam address has to be almsot as secure as a password...It seems my spam level just jumped over the break again...
misterjanglesNov 28, 2006
i like spamarrest.com - you can whitelist your important addresses & domains first. Then anybody not on the list has to do a challenge/response. Some people don't like 'em but it solved my spam problem.
zmerlinNov 28, 2006
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
dyvbondNov 28, 2006
dvorak.org/blog!
bigjules27Nov 28, 2006
The fact of the matter is that spam is never going to stop. Once you find a way to stop one form of it, out comes a new updated version that bi-passes the protection you have. The only way it can forever stoped is if people stop clicking on those spam links. There needs to be a development of a software that eliminated all spam.
aboydNov 29, 2006
Thanks! I gave you a digg. I also found BoxTrapper. It seems to work OK once I realized that it can handle regular expressions (undocumented, but it works).
ramdizzleNov 29, 2006
There is a huge opportunity here for someone to develope an awesome solution to this madness! I am tired of being my own spam filter!
johnny84Nov 29, 2006
If 9 out of 10 are spam then my current filter is doing ok but not great. I still get plenty of emails every day that are spam. However, the spam craze has influenced me to opening a gmail account as a permanent address because there is little or no spam on that account.