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Spamday

Over the last week or so, my incoming spam levels have been falling to a emarkably low level. I get almost no spam on my work e-mail thanks to magic worked by Sun IT. Despite over 60% of the incoming mail to the sun.com domain being spam, almost none of it ever reaches me and there seem to be no false negatives either - the folder they dump the suspect stuff into invariably has true spam when I check.

On my personal domains, I am a cheapskate and use a cheap but useless hosting service (which is why I am still not running something like Moveable Type or Roller), so all my filtering is done by Apple's Mail application on OS X. It does a really good job, but still plenty gets through the defences.

Anyway, today (Sunday) I have suddenly had a real deluge, high double-digits or more every hour. Loads of spam, loads of duplicates, all to e-mail addresses harvested from this site or from Susanna's site (and hence probably not virus-related). People are using spam address lists they've got from somewhere because I get as many as ten duplicates of each item. It seems the money to be made from spam is no longer good enough to allow people to devote themselves to it full time, and the result is a pink tidal wave on Sunday - or Spamday as I think I'll now be naming it.

posted at 11:35 PM (UK) | |