From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And yet, in spite of your statistics, there is more spam than ever.
Some estimates are that in excess of 95% of all email is spam.
They're trying harder. We ARE keeping it out of user's mailboxes. I
consider that a win. I consider it a real win that they have to work
harder to create zombie nets and send millions of emails to get maybe
thousands through. They seem to be getting fewer through for more
effort. So the users see a win.
The only other way to really stop spam is not socially acceptable. But
I do think it would be fun if a bounty was placed on the head (not
necessarily with the body attached) of the top spammers and zombie net
owners. Declare them in season and fair game. More seriously getting
them off the street is about the only real way to end the spam. If
THAT is your "win" then SpamAssassin is not going to make you happy,
ever. Learn a WHOLE lot more about networking, the fine details of
things like DNS, and mail handling, and so forth. Then start tracking
down the physical locations of these people and turn them in. Or
simply let an "excitable person with a gun" know where they are. One
way or another take them away from computers. This will be a life long
undertaking. As you kill one head of the hydra another grows to replace
it. But that is the other kind of win that is possible.
(And for what it is worth the spammers that hit MY mailboxes seem to
be taking a vacation that began a little before the weekend before
the Fourth of July and continues. Slow days used to be about 200 spams
a day with 180 being a REALLY slow day after some spammer was caught
and jailed. Normal days were 250 to 285. Worst case was around 350.
Now I am seeing slightly more than half those numbers for some reason.
I wonder if I have gotten on some spammer's blacklists for turning
them in to our kind of black lists. If that is true I cannot say I am
unhappy. "Tickled pink" is a closer description. Oh, and no, I don't
want or need your spam. /dev/null it yourself.)
{^_^}
