Has Spam Stabilized?
from the a-brief-respite dept
Could it be? Instead of continuing its devouring of all email, could spam actually be stabilizing? That's the claim from one anti-spam firm who says for the past three months, the percentage of email they believe is spam has stayed relatively constant rather than its usual pattern of growing ever larger. Could we dare to dream of a day when the amount of spam actually decreases? Chances are, of course, that this is just a temporary plateau, and the spam will start jumping up again, because (apparently) the world just doesn't have enough fake Rolex watches.
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Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
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Re: Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
My biggest fear is somebody doing a dictionary attack on my domain and getting thousands of spams at once. Fortunately, it hasn't happened yet (although a virus did send to a few nonexistent addresses) and it's now illegal under CAN-SPAM (although we know how well spammers pay attention to that).
My biggest hope is that the nine-year sentence handed down to that North Carolina spammer will at least scare some of them off.
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Re: Spam Stabilized? I Think Not!
You get less than three Spam per day?! I get more than that on a Yahoo account whose address has never seen the light of day.
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