Are you getting fewer spam emails these days?
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A few years ago I set up a Gmail account for the sole purpose of giving it out to anyone I don't know personally. Things like online purchases, registering for forums, etc For a long time I've been averaging 200+ spam emails a week at that address, which probably isn't a lot compared to some people, but I live a boring life.
Fortunately, thanks to Gmail's excellent spam filters, I never see the spam, although I do occassionaly take peek just to see what's in there and click on the "Delete all spam now" link. Several days ago I noticed that there were only 3 spam emails in there, and today, there were none. Huh? WTF? Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I want all spammers to die a horrible violent death, but it seems very unusual that everything would just suddenly stop.
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No, I'm getting more spam than ever. I went for years without getting more than maybe 1 spam message a day, now I get 50. Mostly porn.
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You know, now that you mention it, I think it's been months since I last saw a spam message on my gmail accounts.
(other than from TDWTF threads I'm subscribed to)
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@Zecc said:
You know, now that you mention it, I think it's been months since I last saw a spam message on my gmail accounts.
(other than from TDWTF threads I'm subscribed to)
I saw one. And I posted it here.
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Every now and then some security company will take down a huge botnet. There's always a massive drop-off of spam for a few weeks afterwards while the Botnet rebuilds itself by using ad networks to infect people who are either running IE or have the Java Browser Plugin.
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@Lorne Kates said:
Every now and then some security company will take down a huge botnet. There's always a massive drop-off of spam for a few weeks afterwards while the Botnet rebuilds itself by using ad networks to infect people who are either running IE or have the Java Browser Plugin.
I wonder what the actual statistics are like. I bet people who block ads have much higher rates of infection than people who don't, since the former are likely to also be downloading a lot of pirated software which is where most viruses come from.
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@morbiuswilters said:
I wonder what the actual statistics are like. I bet people who block ads have much higher rates of infection than people who don't, since the former are likely to also be downloading a lot of pirated software which is where most viruses come from.
You're full of fucking shit.
Porn is not software.
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@Lorne Kates said:
Porn is not software.
Tell that to the text-based sex game I tried playing when I was 10. It was written in BASIC and I think it was older than I was. It promised crude, ASCII porn if I won, but it was impossible to get past a few minutes:
touch her boobs I'm sorry, I don't see a "her" here. look You see a woman with boobs. touch boobs She moans softly. kiss her I'm sorry, I don't see a "her" here. kiss lips She rolls her eyes in boredom. stick penis in vagina I'm sorry, I don't see a "stick" here. insert penis into vagina I'm sorry, I don't see an "insert" here. interpolate penis into vagina You go to interpolate your penis into her vagina, but she has already left you for a black man. GAME OVER NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm barely even exaggerating here.
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@morbiuswilters said:
Tell that to the text-based sex game I tried playing when I was 10. It was written in BASIC and I think it was older than I was. It promised crude, ASCII porn if I won, but it was impossible to get past a few minutes:
Sounds hots. Do you know where I can get a pirated copy of it?
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@Lorne Kates said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Tell that to the text-based sex game I tried playing when I was 10. It was written in BASIC and I think it was older than I was. It promised crude, ASCII porn if I won, but it was impossible to get past a few minutes:
Sounds hots. Do you know where I can get a pirated copy of it?
Just hang around Google sites. Some malware from AdSense is bound to install it at some point.
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Yes and no.
I have two main accounts, one provided by a certain Redmond-based company (had it since school, don't judge me!) that has been getting progessively fewer junk messages - most noticeably last year when it dropped from a good few dozen a day to less than a dozen. The other, more Cupertino-flavoured account, has been getting more and more; about five years back I'd get one or two per week but now it's getting on for a dozen a day.
I'd say this was odd, but now that the accounts are free, the number of users is probably on the up, making them more viable targets.
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I haven't actually SEEN a spam message in ages. It all gets autofiltered. Outlook 2010 false positives a lot (I don't particularly care because I only have it mapped to my ISP email, which I don't use for anything anymore), but I've never seen it false-negative. A dig in there shows nine spams from the past month.
My gmail shows 409 in the past 30 days. One false positive. Zero false negatives that I can recall ever.
My work email (Google Apps Enterprise) has never received spam of any sort - but I've never used it outside the enterprise (I don't talk to outsiders. Ever.)
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As of this post, my Gmail account has only ever had one spam email. My university account, on the other hand...
I'm going to guess 90% of the emails I get in my university inbox are spam. That's probably too low.
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I don't have email. I set up a temporary SMTP server whenever I need to register for something requiring email; other than that it isn't running so anyone who tries to send a message gets a "unreachable server" error. My UNIX account at FreeGeek and my account at X-BIT has email on it too, but I only use those for internal mail anyways.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@zzo38 said:
I set up a temporary SMTP...
Is it written in Forth?
No, it's written in Dart and run on nodejs.
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@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
No, actually it is written in C.@zzo38 said:
I set up a temporary SMTP...
Is it written in Forth?
No, it's written in Dart and run on nodejs.
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@zzo38 said:
@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
No, actually it is written in C.@zzo38 said:
I set up a temporary SMTP...
Is it written in Forth?
No, it's written in Dart and run on nodejs.
C? Is that some new dialect of Forth?
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@morbiuswilters said:
@zzo38 said:
Firth of Forth. or Firth of Fifth.@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
No, actually it is written in C.@zzo38 said:
I set up a temporary SMTP...
Is it written in Forth?
No, it's written in Dart and run on nodejs.
C? Is that some new dialect of Forth?
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@El_Heffe said:
Nephroid of Freeth.@morbiuswilters said:
@zzo38 said:
Firth of Forth. or Firth of Fifth.@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
No, actually it is written in C.@zzo38 said:
I set up a temporary SMTP...
Is it written in Forth?
No, it's written in Dart and run on nodejs.
C? Is that some new dialect of Forth?