On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Why such a huge number all-of-a-sudden? > (it had dropped to about 5 per day) > > You guessed it.... I tried SpamCop again. :(((( > > <yelling at self> > STUPID, STUPID, STUPID !!!!! > </yelling at self>
I got a Nigerian scam actually sent from Nigeria. I complained to the ISP, and within the next 24 hours I must have gotten about 6 more of them, mostly sent from other countries. It does seem that if you complain to ISPs in certain countries, all it does is serve to get you on more spam lists. > But still, > I stick with the same method. > > Delete 'em, forget 'em. How about forget 'em and don't worry about deleting them. Those going to /dev/null are never seen at all. As soon as they're collected, they're dumped. The ones that go to spamfolder, I generally report to the originating ISP except if they're from Korea, China, Argentina, Brazil, Philipines, Malaysia, Singapore, and now Nigeria as well. With ISPs in those countries, it's either futile, or spam seems to increase with each complaint. The e-mails retrieved by fetchmail on the 22nd of November were sorted by procmail and spamassassin to these files: 38% were automatically sent to /dev/null 24% were filed to arachne 14% ended up in spamfolder 12% were for steve 10% were sent to coffee 2% went to live in ups In addition, 1 direct e-mail from China was turned away by sendmail with a "reject=550 5.0.0 Go away spammer" Of a potential 23 spams, I was only aware of 6. A quick look at the subject line, and "D" takes care of them... unless I'm in a mood for reporting to ISPs. Even 6 is a bit tedious at times, but it's still a whole lot less tedious than 23. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
