spam is getting worse
Aug. 28th, 2005 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eOut of 35 emails this morning only 2 were genuine.
In their relentless drive to sqeeze money out of inappropriate advertising -- essentially trying to get money for nothing -- the spammers are having a deeply damaging effect upon what was once one of the best forms of communication ever developed. Now I have to know ahead of time who is sending me an email so that I can have a filter watching for their mail to pluck it out of the deluge of spam. I get about 100 or more emails a day. Most of it is spam. The insane thing is that my ISP has a spam filter that blocks most of the obvious spam. I receive only what gets past it. Heaven knows how much spam is really being generated by the spamming sociopaths out there.
The reason I have such a high rate of spam is that I've been on the net since the very early days with one email address all that time. I have actively participated in a lot of online discussions (like those developing standards for building virtual worlds) where in the old days all the addresses were available for anybody to see. Also my email address is on my website, which I've had to obfuscate slightly.
In their relentless drive to sqeeze money out of inappropriate advertising -- essentially trying to get money for nothing -- the spammers are having a deeply damaging effect upon what was once one of the best forms of communication ever developed. Now I have to know ahead of time who is sending me an email so that I can have a filter watching for their mail to pluck it out of the deluge of spam. I get about 100 or more emails a day. Most of it is spam. The insane thing is that my ISP has a spam filter that blocks most of the obvious spam. I receive only what gets past it. Heaven knows how much spam is really being generated by the spamming sociopaths out there.
The reason I have such a high rate of spam is that I've been on the net since the very early days with one email address all that time. I have actively participated in a lot of online discussions (like those developing standards for building virtual worlds) where in the old days all the addresses were available for anybody to see. Also my email address is on my website, which I've had to obfuscate slightly.