Posted by Dr Zoidberg on 11/14/06 22:50

Andrew wrote:
> Has anoyone else noticed a huge increase in spam in the last 6
> months?. I'm having to delete tons of stuff with mailwasher compared to 6
> months ago. Why doesn't someone do something about these bloody
> idiots. Its the same people/emails over and over again. It's
> getting bloody ridiculous
Yes.
We have an email filtering system at work that needs to be checked daily for
genuine emails caught by accident.
Two years ago we would get about 6-800 emails to be checked on a monday
morning.
Last year we used to get about 1500.
This weekend we had 6500.
--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

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