Having a spam free day?
 

Check this story out seems like a major spam host got shut down.
Host of spam groups cut off Junk e-mail drops after providers disconnect a California firm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27689714/

yes yes i am having a spam free day, and me thinking my email box was broken, for soem time already i was afraid to open my email box every morning, just going thru all the spam again even i have spamfilters and blocks, but for me the last 2 days i dont get spam anymore...so a good thing happend, now hoping it wont happen again in the future!

Love hearing news like this. |headbang|

On a related note, I found this very interesting: Spam gets 1 response per 12,500,000 emails

Now thats a damn good ratio.

Normally we process about 685 inbound emails per minute with a peak around 6300 inbound emails per minute. Today, we're around 148 inbound emails per minute.

Serious dent in things. Its a shame it'll be shortlived -- they shut down the command and control network, but, the machines that were compromised are still compromised, and once they reestablish a connection with their parent, it'll be back... sadly.

I hate that one person in that ratio. |swear|

number of spam has greatly decreased

|gabbo|What? No more 'CHnEAaP_VIiAnGRiA' every other email?

That California firm must have been a MAJOR player in spam. I was wondering why my email box seemed so empty these last 2 days.If we can smash whatever firm is responsible for the remaining junk,we just might be on our way to completely spam free mail boxes!|bananna|

i think they ehere the only one who sendme spam, i am such a happy girl now|bananna||bananna||bananna||bananna|

I've seen a drop in incoming spam, but nowhere near as dramatic. More like 30% less than usual.

that's a very good news. I won't get tired of deleting those unwanted e-mails.

I got like 15 mails from MovieRoom, does that count? |couch|

I went from 1000+ shit emails a day to 40 usefull emails a day.you all cant imaging how happy i am, but still now you all can understand why i thought my emailbox was broke when i got only 40+ a day the last 2 days

Hey I'm not getting spammed from marc. I feel left out |huh

That's not fair. I only got 10. Seems sort of boring to send that many identical newsletters at once. |yawn|

I vastly prefer it when a sponsor sends their unedited newsletter, figures out that they stated something incorrectly, sends the corrected newsletter 10 minutes later, then sends another 5 minutes later because they discovered yet another issue. I've been seeing that a lot lately.

Unfortunately i opened an email with japanese characters, been getting lots of similiar shit since then, like 90 a day...|banghead|

That Cali firm doesn't waste any time getting back on their feet.

|gabbo| CHnEAaP_VIiAnGRiA anyone?