Re: PLUG: PMAS

In article <1378bo75v2pl6a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Daniel
<mark.daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

And I thought the SPAM load was moderating (silly me).

Looking for a specific e-mail I thought I should have received, I just
opened my PreciseMail Anti-SPAM quarrantined messages page to search for
it (without success). I don't do this often and haven't for a while
(obviously not since the last upgrade). Towards the top of the
2,967,263 byte report page is a (new to me) item "(Messages: 4605)".
That's four and one half thousand quarrantined SPAM in the past 14 days!
This is something like 328 per day!!

That seems about average. I've resorted to using ZEN.SPAMHAUS.ORG as an
RBL. That gets rid of the lion's share.

these, I see in my mail perhaps five more per day, and most of those
only because they match some fairly liberal entries in my allow list.
Obviously without some filter of this sort having a well-known e-mail
address would be completely unmanageable.

In the old days, addresses were harvested from usenet, web pages etc,
and keeping them secret, or at least not posting them in plain text, did
have a very noticeable effect. These days, addresses are collected by
viruses on PCs, so if anyone has your address in some PC address book,
then the spammers have it. Also, dictionary attacks are popular; they
get everything, but a long address might cut down spam. Here are just
the latest on my cluster:

check_user: User xnwvcqvf is apparently a username but has no account: FAIL

check_user: User antalyaivr is apparently a username but has no account: FAIL

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