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May 1, 2008 at 1:49 AM
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One thousand, eight hundred spams today. I hope that record will not be broken for a while.
   Thank you to those spammers in the United States (Comcast, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves—plenty came through you, so it’s ironical you block so many other ISPs and accuse them of spamming), Turkey, Poland, Red China, Hungary, Mexico and Chile for wasting my goddamn time today.
   To the ISPs and hosts with open relays: come on, get with the programme.
   But with our reporting software, we added a heck of a lot of IP addresses to blacklists today without my lifting a finger.

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Well done on the filtering. I get lots of spam too, but worse, I have to stride through every single new blog registered on 20six UK and decide if it's spam or not. We don't have any automated system for it, so it's down to me and google translate. (Liuhecai and Mark Six seem to be our biggest offenders, I'm assured they're illegal gambling or something...)

Yes, Shame on the spammers here and also around the world. I since we have the law "No Call List" now I get a crazy amount of mail. I wonder how we are paying for that. I'm sure it's covered by the taxpayers some how. Imagine, I'm paying to get junk out of my mailbox and throw it in the trash.

Burning money - What a waste.

Pete, I sympathize. Manual analysis—not fun. I guess these folks change their IP addresses regularly, too?
H. I.: I agree. Goodness, so your mail has gone up because of the No Call List?
Mine just gets worse and worse and sometimes I have no idea where they get my address from. The old address I do know, because I was dumb enough in the 1990s to put it into internet phone books. But the newer ones shouldn’t be there and I have been a lot more vigilant, not even mentioning them online.

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Jack, do your lady friend tell that your penis is to skinny? I sell great deals on Cialis, Viagra, Home Electronics, and Penis Enhancers. Me you make good busness. have great days!!!!

Jack,
Can you not use Gmail over there?
Honestly it takes care of 99.9% of my spam. I get maybe one or two spam emails per week. I forward all my other email to my Gmail account and use it exclusively now.

Sully, I’ll buy from you, thanks!
Chris, it would be far too complicated for me (as a layman) to change to Gmail as I have been using my regular account for over a decade. My filters are pretty good; it’s really the downloading time.
The 1,800 was an anomaly, which is why I blogged about it. Thank you for your concern though: I truly appreciate it.

Sadly Mr. Yan, this is not so good. Often as I pass by your site I hear friendly chats about neat subjects, deep stuff, or just the silly joy found in crazy cars. I like your style of auto.

Today spam is the current topic, oh how I hate that word, don't like to eat it or read it. Spam pros have told me that they send a crawler over text /html pages and that keys @ . As many of your readers, I have many sites. The flash based sites send no spam, and the sites that are code based(blogs, html) send the most.

Someone said, change the @ to "at", and that ends most spam.

Mr. Yan, you are an old internet pro is that correct?

Thanks!

Simply:
bill

Jack Yan replied to w|shepherd’s comment:
May 2, 2008
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Bill, we have a few tricks with the at sign, but substituting it with the word at actually doesn’t help. The spambots have learned this trick, unfortunately.

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