I don't know how much spam you folk all get, but I get a lot. At my main 2-5 emails, I get about 100-200 a day, all of them are caught, either server side by SpamAssassin, and Spambayes for the ones it doesn't catch.
Since I have a domain name (notian.net) I can have anything before it. I used to have the *@notian.net enabled, so anything and everything got to me. For the first couple years this was alright, but one day it went from a small flood to Tsunamis and melted polar ice, with a lot of rain, and started averaging 1000-2000 spam a day.
When that started happening, I divided my account so my main emails went to my main inbox, and the rest went catchall. This was fine for about a month, until it crashed my host's server, and they told me to turn it off or else. The only other option was to do a straight redirect, but I didn't want to bother with that.
Flash forward 8 months, I had an empty gmail account, and wanted to see just how much spam I could get.
So, 9 days into the project, I have 16,579 spam, taking up a mere 3% of gmail's current max capacity.
I know this is not much compared to major companies, but this domain has 1 inbox, there is one person who these 2000 spam a day are for.
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Megan posted this at 13:23—9th June 2005.
She has: 10,032 posts
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Yowza! I don't get very much at all. I got a new email address from my ISP last year and it's been clean ever since. I also rely on Opera's spam filter to filter out the junk I do get. I DID have a big adware problem this week. I think I got it all (hopeflly.... crossing fingers.... don't know how it happened in the first place!!)
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CptAwesome posted this at 20:43—4th July 2005.
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Joined: Dec 2004
One month 70,000+ spam
JeevesBond posted this at 13:00—5th July 2005.
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Ouch! I use the same sort of spam protection as you CptAwsome (server-side and Mozillas adaptive spam filter), but don't get anywhere near that amount of spam!! It's just ridiculous, but must work on some people, otherwise why would people keep doing it? Unless marketeers really are that stupid :eek:
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Wordsmith posted this at 22:19—8th July 2005.
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I am getting only greek spam and I have no idea where its form. Seems to be all different as if I am enrolled in a greek forum or something. I get around 200 a day.
Drivin me mad
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Dragon of Ice posted this at 01:27—10th July 2005.
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I get no spam. At all.
ttst posted this at 18:23—26th July 2005.
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Joined: Jul 2005
I get around 25 per day.
wwwben posted this at 18:51—26th July 2005.
He has: 285 posts
Joined: Jan 2005
well i have 10 different email addresses and also have 2 domain catch alls
i get around 150 to 200 spams per day total
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