On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Julia Thompson wrote:
> I've been getting a lot of spam to a couple of my e-mail accounts. I'd
> been tracking just how many spams a day they were getting. Combined
> totals for the last 10 days have been at *least* 200 per day, with 401
> one day, averaging probably around 280-300 or so.
>
> Today, I've had 3.
>
> Not sure just why this is, but it's a little eerie. And those 3 were
> all earlier today. I haven't received a single piece of spam since 11
> this morning.
>
> I'm just hoping that whatever it is isn't saving them all up to dump
> 1200 spams on me come Tuesday.
Figured it out. There were old addresses being forwarded to the addresses
that were getting a lot of spam. Turned out that the forwarding stopped.
I'd been getting a total of maybe 10 legitimate e-mails from the forwarded
addresses each *month*, and the rest was spam.
So, stop the forwarding, kill the spam. :) I just hadn't realized how
*much* of the spam was from the forwarded addresses.
Julia
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