I am getting much more spam then I did say a month ago myself. I get about 150 a day, and it is getting annoying. What I have been doing, though, is when I do sign up for a website, I put the website name as the username, since I have a catch all. Now I can see who is giving out my email address and I speak with that company, asking why they sold my name. I get more porn spam then anything, and I have never signed up for a porn site or the like, so I do not understand it either. They love us all, Mike :)
Robert -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:33 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Spam on the rise? On Jan 1 I put in some more IPs and domains to be blocked due to spamming. Since then, I've gotten 63 spam messages that have gotten through (i.e. from unblocked domains or IPs). Even the lists which are secured with subject scanners and the like have been hit by 3 spam messages (I removed them). Have others noticed an increase in the level of spam in the last week or is it just that spammers like me? I'm going to try something new in the coming weeks. When I report a spam attack, I'm going to create a mail account for the spam message and use that as the FROM address for the abuse email. This will tell me if the abuse report is just being used as a "yes, he's alive" for the spammers or not. If it just gets a reply, then no prob but if I start getting spam on it, banned! (Yes, I know I can just join a RBH or the like but I can only trust myself when it comes to the lists. I have to be sure that the address IS a spammer, not trust others to tell me that it is.) Michael Dinowitz Master of the House of Fusion http://www.houseoffusion.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
