anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

Mon May 6 09:29:42 UTC 2002

I have to say I think you're doing something wrong somewhere.. excluding
official role addresses I receive a handful (15ish?) spam mails per day
and I've been using some of my email addresses for years. A couple are
used on websites so they are published.

Perhaps to an extent I'm lucky, but I watch where I put my email address,
tend to use a different user when submitting web forms so I can filter if
necessary.. I've noticed the worst offenders for taking email addresses
and distributing them are things like search engine submits and online
games. All 'official/business' type sites seem to be responsible with
their email databases..

Steve

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote:

> 
>     > We can grit our teeth and make that statement now, when spam is
>     > (handwave, guess, maybe) 30% of our incoming mail load.
>     >
>     > It's going to become a lot harder to make as that percentage
>     > approaches 99.  Which it will, and probably sooner than any of us want
>     > to think about.
> 
> FWIW, my mother got a new email account a two weeks ago, which I just got
> around to setting her machine up to log into this afternoon.  There were
> 817 pieces of mail in her inbox, of which seven weren't spam.  That comes
> to 99.14%.  I'm sure that'll go down a bit as she begins to use the
> account more, but I doubt it'll go down much.  For it to go down to 30%,
> she'd need to receive 953 pieces of valid email each week, and I'd guess
> the actual number, from looking at her prior email account, is closer to
> 15.  Which would still put us at nearly 97% spam.
> 
>                                 -Bill
> 
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