I used to get 50-60 porn emails per day and now I have zero. Did something happen a couple of months back that I missed? Anyone get shutdown?

I've seen a few accounts of big spammers getting knocked off, but I haven't personally seen any benefit from it. I'm getting about the same amount of spam now, but all but 1% or so gets filtered by Popfile.

Maybe your email provider added some filtering upstream?

I don't think they (NTL) do very much in the way of anti-spam. Well at least I'm seeing a reduction - lets hope its a sign of things to come.

About a year or so, Demon put a spam filter into my mail account without me knowing and it dramatically reduced the number of spam emails from over 100 a day to none. It's only recently that one or two have started trickling through. It's also interesting that me and my colleagues have started getting spam on our work addresses too, same emails as well. Interesting that this starts after Siemens take over the IT stuff.

Yup, it's been a drastic reduction in the last few months for me too. I now forward all my email to my cell phone. My university does have a spam filter, and I've set it to send anything >70% probably spam to the bit bucket. However, I had that set up long before the spam level decreased. I've never had someone tell me they sent me a message I didn't get.

Matthew

Yes, some 25-30% less. I forward all my mail to my Gmail acct. Several months ago the number of spam messages touched 1000 (I just let Gmail delete those older than a month), now they hover around 700.

I've seen a reduction here over the past few months. I already have reasonably aggressive blacklisting on the server (Spamhaus+CBL, also no connections from China, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey etc.) but the reduction over that is quite large.

Gareth

My spam has gone down as well, but mostly due to my own policies. I use the trick of drakino_whatever @ miniinfo.net for things, and if one address starts getting spam more then anything else, it gets blocked at the server.

I don't trust a lot of the blacklists that accept submissions from everyone without review. I found it was blocking legitimate things like billing statements from MMOs, because the same servers distribute MMO gaming newsletters that one person marked as spam instead of unsubscribing from. I use one blacklist on my server that definitely only stops spam, but it honestly blocks maybe 10% of the traffic that my personal blacklist does.

I still despise any method that generates more work for the people sending e-mail, like the users who insist that I must click a link before approving their e-mail. If everyone switches to such an annoying system, no-one would get any e-mail, since the response to approve it would be met with a "you must approve this" and start a viscous cycle.

My spam at work seemed to drop from 25/week to 15/week in August. However, I seem to be hit by only a few spammers (similarities in headers and bodies), so maybe one just quit or was murdered.

Does anyone else see the once-almighty BrightMail as totally worthless? My Earthlink account apparently has it, but it filters essentially no spam, despite my relentless marking. I thought BrightMail was THE best spam filter, with millions of spamtrap addresses and human confirmation?

My work mail is now protected by ultra-agressively-targeted custom mailfilter rules, filtering the specific footprints of the apparently few spammers. Footprints are largely provided by SpamAssassian tagging in the headers, which just keeps getting more and more specific. That's backed up by the Spam Bayes plugin for Outlook, demolishing any other remaining spam (even using my IMAP connection).

The only stuff that sneaks by (because my mailfilter rule isn't perfected yet) are the image-only spams with Bayesian poison (strings of legitimate text randomly pulled from documents). The HTML links are so obfuscated with "cid" links, #, ?, and redirects that SpamAssassian can't assign the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY tag. And the Bayesian poison are full sentences of common words. Thank heavens they all have a similar forged HELO tag in the header. Trusty mailfilter wins again.

I have been getting more on my time warner email account. I usually get a few a day but a few months ago I got less.

I would really like to get less junk mail I get a credit card app from the same company just about every day.

If you're running low on spam, here's a can to tide you over.
-Zeke

My spam arrival rate at my Rice account has remained relatively constant (100-150 messages / day). However, my aggressively trained DSPAM is doing great. It's also got the tagging generated by SpamAssassin running before it (thus, allowing DSPAM to decide on the relative worth of the SpamAssassin filters). All said and done, I'm seeing a 99.5% accuracy rate, or about one error every other day. I can live with that. Generally speaking, the errors I see these days tend to be legit emails ending up in the spam bucket, rather than spam getting through. Also, I forward my Rice email to GMail, adding a third level of spam filtering. In recent weeks, it seems that GMail has tuned their spam filters to be more aggressive and is catching more and more of my legit mail in the spam box. When GMail first started, I never had to go look through the spam box.

I believe I got the credit card opt-out notice in the mail. I was suspicious because it came for really no reason. Also, it listed four credit reporting agencies instead of the main three, which was suspicious.

But yes, I do seem to remember calling a number and reading off every last speck of personal information in my life. I was terrified that it was a scam and all my over-caution, paranoia, and downright vigilance for privacy was being undermined by my desire for it. I swear I kept a record of it.... I'll have to check against the link you posted. Thanks for that.