[NBLUG/talk] has anyone else noticed a dramatic drom in spam?

[Robert Hayes]

Today, as an example, I had a total of 54 spam.

Here's what I've been doing.

No procmail, no spam assassin. I just got pissed one day (angry, not drunk) 
and decided to start sending it all back. 

So I set up my filters to bounce anything that met the current spam 
definitions that were being routed into the trash folder.

That had a small effect. 

About five weeks ago I got particularly peeved, and -- I know this makes no 
sense - I hope someone can figure out why it's working -- I began to bounce 
each incoming spam TWICE.

Since then the number has steadily decreased. On weekends I barely get 40, and 
all of the content are from new sources.

Any ideas, gang?



On Monday 12 July 2004 11:51 am, Robert Hayes wrote:
> I've been trying a different approach to spam management recently, and my
> incoming spam has dropped from ~300 per day to less than fifty in the last
> five weeks or so.
>
> Also, the source and nature of the spam is changing very noticeably.
> Less porn, meds and mortgage and almost all of the incoming is new vendors
> for 'innocent' stuff: aliminum siding, business opportunities, etc.
>
> Is it working, or is it a coincidence?
>
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