My unscientific study of spam
Jun. 3rd, 2006 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI normally junk all of the spam I get. But, I've been getting ~100 pieces of spam a day recently, so I decided to take a closer look at it.
It turned out that over half of my spam was coming into my suespammers.org and spamcon.org email addresses. I promptly had those turned off since I stepped down from SpamCon way back in January and no longer had any involvement in the organization. Once I turned that off, I got 41 pieces of spam during the next 24 hours. Of that spam load, here's the backdown:
- 8 pieces of spam came in to various Anthrocon addresses that forward to me. And this is with me using a number of blacklists on the mailserver!
- Exactly 1 piece of spam was sent to one of my CAUCE addresses. I think I need to see what blacklists John Levine is using!
- NO pieces of spam were sent to any of my SpamEx email addresses. I can only assume that the professional spammers have caught on to SpamEx and remove those addresses from their lists.
- The remainder of my spam was sent directly to my Gmail account, and Google caught it all.
So, I guess what I learned from this is that SpamEx addresses do not seem to get spammed very much. (And even if they do, I can always turn off the address in question.)
It turned out that over half of my spam was coming into my suespammers.org and spamcon.org email addresses. I promptly had those turned off since I stepped down from SpamCon way back in January and no longer had any involvement in the organization. Once I turned that off, I got 41 pieces of spam during the next 24 hours. Of that spam load, here's the backdown:
- 8 pieces of spam came in to various Anthrocon addresses that forward to me. And this is with me using a number of blacklists on the mailserver!
- Exactly 1 piece of spam was sent to one of my CAUCE addresses. I think I need to see what blacklists John Levine is using!
- NO pieces of spam were sent to any of my SpamEx email addresses. I can only assume that the professional spammers have caught on to SpamEx and remove those addresses from their lists.
- The remainder of my spam was sent directly to my Gmail account, and Google caught it all.
So, I guess what I learned from this is that SpamEx addresses do not seem to get spammed very much. (And even if they do, I can always turn off the address in question.)