<p>I don’t see much point in complaining about SPAM, but it’s slowly but surely reaching complete insanity…</p>
What you see here is the recent history view of my DSPAM – our second line of defense against SPAM.
Red means SPAM. (the latest of the messages was a quite clever phishing attempt which I had to manually reclassify)
To give even more perspective to this: The last genuine Email I received was this morning at 7:54 (it’s now 10 hours later) and even that was just an automatically generated mail from Skype.
To put it into even more perspective: My DSPAM reports that since december 22th, I got 897 SPAM messages and – brace yourself – 170 non-spam messages of which 100 were subversion commit emails and 60 other emails sent from automated cron-jobs.
What I’m asking myself now is: Do these spammers still get anything out of their work? The signal-to-noise ratio has gone down the drain in a manner which can only mean that no person on earth would actually still read through all this spam and even be stupid enough to actually fall for it.
How bad does it have to get before it gets better?
Oh and don’t think that DSPAM is all I’m doing… No… these 897 mails were the messages that passed through both the ix DNSBL and SpamAssassin.
Oh and: Kudos to the DSPAM team. A recognition rate of 99.957% is really, really good
gnegg 