On 25 Jun 2007 at 18:36, Robert Patterson wrote: > On 25 Jun 2007 at 15:23, Randolph Peters wrote: > > > > About a month ago, I saw spam drop off by half, and now it's down to > > 1/3 of what it was just a couple of months ago.
Er, Randolph didn't write that -- I did. > You are fortunate. My spam is at an all-time high of around 13,000 > messages per 30 days. The good news is that Gmail catches all but a > few 10s of those (in 30 days). What usually happens is that none get > through for many days, and then over the course of 3-4 days 20-30 get > through. It's like the spammers find a temporary exploit in the > generally amazingly accurate Gmail spam filter. Do you have your email published somewhere? My dfenton.com email addresses are all uncompromised and receive no spam, except for once ever month or so. This is because none of them appears in an unmunged form in any public location. On Usenet, I munge my posting address. On my own web pages, I use a PHP email form so that the user never knows the address the mail is being sent to. For web registrations and blog posts, I use forwarders that I can disable should they be compromised by a spammer. So far, knock wood, none of those addresses has produced one bit of spam, so it's clear to me that it's not that hard to prevent spam harvesting of a new email address if you are just careful about where it appears in the clear. > Speaking of which, I think much of our Finale correspondence over the > years is searchable on Google. I don't know if there are cutoff dates. It is, but via those listserv republishing services, all of which I've seen obscure the email addresses. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
