How bad is your spam problem?

StephenM · **on:** April 28, 2008, 11:09:18 am

I just logged into the email address used to administrate these forums and my website account. I have just over 100,000 new messages, and I think they are nearly all spam. Its taking up about 700mb of my webspace aswell! :shock:

Give me Gmail any day!

Chavaquiah · **Reply #1 on:** April 28, 2008, 12:09:39 pm

According to my mail server stats, in the last 24 hours it received close to 12,000 messages, of which only 10,900 were immediately rejected as obvious spam. From over 1,000 that made it to my inbox, only 100 or so were legitimate emails. Half are caught by the secondary spam filter but that still leaves hundreds of offers for anatomy extenders and fake watches cluttering my mail.

The situation is so bad that at times SpamAssassin alone almost overloads the server.

Jps · **Reply #2 on:** April 28, 2008, 02:20:58 pm

Your admin account has been sending me 2+ messages daily for almost a year now.

dktc · **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2008, 02:40:50 pm

Quote from: "Jps"

Your admin account has been sending me 2+ messages daily for almost a year now.

Just to get even with you

(joke)

nwadeltaboy · **Reply #4 on:** April 28, 2008, 05:15:42 pm

I keep getting this, from a different person each time:

Quote

Real men! Milllions of people aacross the world have already tested THIS and ARE making their girllfriends feel brand new sexual sensatiions!
YOU are the best in bed, aren't you ?
Girls! Deevelop your sexual rrelationship and get even MORE pleaasure! Make your boyfriendd a gift!

About half the words are always spelled wrong.

StephenM · **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2008, 05:38:48 pm

I get the same. Used to dodge the spam filter on gmail, now its gone.

Seattle · **Reply #6 on:** April 28, 2008, 11:46:06 pm

I have Gmail, but I get about 50-70 spam messages a day :cry:

herrgoda · **Reply #7 on:** April 28, 2008, 11:55:48 pm

Quote from: "Seattle"

I have Gmail, but I get about 50-70 spam messages a day :cry:

I don't really want to know on which sort of sites you registered with that :shock:

StephenM · **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2008, 09:28:01 am

Quote from: "herrgoda"

Quote from: "Seattle"
I have Gmail, but I get about 50-70 spam messages a day :cry:

I don't really want to know on which sort of sites you registered with that :shock:

I'm guessing completely illegal or over 18s only.

seafly4fun · **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:43:48 am

All my email accounts are spam magnets. On one account I've been getting 3 or 4 emails about colon cleansing :shock: Maybe I should eat more bran?

Seattle · **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2008, 11:22:18 pm

Quote from: "StephenM"

Quote from: "herrgoda"
Quote from: "Seattle"
I have Gmail, but I get about 50-70 spam messages a day :cry:

I don't really want to know on which sort of sites you registered with that :shock:

I'm guessing completely illegal or over 18s only.

No, its just that me friends have a lot of spam and then the stupid people that spam them see my email address and I get there smap too :cry:

nwadeltaboy · **Reply #11 on:** May 02, 2008, 01:21:07 am

Great stuff.

Pavel · **Reply #12 on:** May 02, 2008, 03:27:47 pm

I think that stuff is horrible ^^^.

And about Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages, I get only like 1-3 per week on my gmail in the spam folder.

Seattle · **Reply #13 on:** May 02, 2008, 11:25:55 pm

Quote from: "new-at-flying"

I think that stuff is horrible ^^^.

And about Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages, I get only like 1-3 per week on my gmail in the spam folder.

lucky....

Dan380 · **Reply #14 on:** May 02, 2008, 11:49:27 pm

I honsetly thought my 1400 total unread e-mails was bad... you guys have some serious problems...