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Posted by Colin Wilson on 11/03/05 20:56
> >>unless they are putting together random combinations of letters and words
> >>for their spam of course - which some spam companies do.
> If that were the case, Colin would receive masses of the other
> combinations being "tested" the fact it seems to be only one is pretty
> damning proof.
Oh, believe me, I do get masses of spam (used to be in the region of
550-600 per day, now down to 250-300 per day), but I also have a
cracking set of filters hand-crafted by me for Mailwasher. My markup
rate for auto-deletion of spam is around 95% at a guess, and only
tends to "miss" one-off compromised machines (I use "hard" filters,
and don`t use any bayesian filtering)
The majority of the spam comes to (3) accounts I have with btinternet
and lineone, and are not related to the domain names I own.
I get "occasional" ones aimed at sales@mydomain and to someone who
worked for another domain name I bought (its a specific name) - but
these probably account for 20 a week at most.
I`ve been at the spam tracking game for a while now, and can spot the
difference between spam and targeted/sold email addresses. I have
previously called in the banking ombudsman to bollock Morgan Stanley
for dubious emailing practices (using an unknown out-of-the-country
third party and disguised URLs - and html misdirection)
Their vague reply follows, and I can probably dig out the banking
ombudsmans' reply if anyone wanted it...
http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/morganstanley.jpg
There`s a quiz that might be of interest too...
MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test
http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html
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