Spam attack

[andrewducker]

I've not had a problem with Spam for months. I still get around 40 spams a day, but with one or two exceptions they get funnelled straight into my Spam folder, where it takes less than 10 seconds total to look them over and hit the delete button. Not that it's really worth spending that time, as I've not had a false positive in at least two months. When I first installed Spamassassin it took a little bit of tweaking to let it know about the mailing lists I was on (and the other people on the notzen domain, which I host), but since that point, it's just run in the background, tirelessly examining emails, calculating their spamminess and then tagging the most likely ones with ***SPAM*** in the subject line. No fuss, no problem, no spam.

Those of you who still do get spam may, however, be interested in this interview with an ex-spammer. He doesn't spill all the beans, but he gives a fair amount of insight into how spammers run their businesses.

"The idea is it's just like a commercial," Shiels said. "You don't just send it to one address once. You send it to one address five or six times. Do commercials only come on once? You get the same crap in your e-mail more than once. You have to bombard the person."

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