Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2014, 16:43:29 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:37 PM, William H. Magill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Actually the increase in SPAM started sometime in August or maybe July.
> 

In the overall / global / world wide spam outcome there was no significant 
rising of the overall spam level at that time:

http://www.trendmicro.com/us/security-intelligence/current-threat-activity/global-spam-map/
http://securelist.com/tag/spam-statistics/
https://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear

So this mean your rising level of (recieved!) spam should have (one or a mix 
of) the following reasons:

 - Your Email address got handled over / selled within a spammer email-address 
package or 

 - grabbed somewhere (i.e. from a Windows users PC ;) from additional spammers 
- as "older" and/or widely used a email address is, as more "known" it is 
usually to any spammers

 - Apples algorithms got better tricked by current spammers at that time - 
fighting spam is a steadily back and forward between spammers and mails ervice 
providers since Email exists - but even incompetent mail service providers lead 
to less good filters because they will catched als false positives which leads 
users to "why did my apple address did not recieve mails from that 'sender' 
while others could recieve it?". So Mail providers have to reopen their filters 
from time to time a bit to avoid blocking of "false positives" (which are - at 
least on a technical level - correct positives...). 

I.e. the hype around MS Exchange (SBS) and some "Exchange security" products 
leaded to many badly driven MXes and MTAs around because nearly every small 
Windows admin feel "capable" to run a business quality email service on the 
public internet while i.e. hardly abusing RFCs.

While it is possible to reduce down to 1%-3% of spam it is not possible to 
filter it completely without the risk of false positives. This affects even big 
players like Apple or Google too.


cheerioh,


Niels.

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