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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
X-rated spam on the decline
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Even as recently as a year or so ago, I could count on the fact that the bulk of the e-mail spam in my in-box would be of the x-rated variety.
But nowadays, the x-rated folk seem to either have gone away or the spam filtering has targeted them. For whatever reason there’s less of the stuff.
By the way, unless you have friends all over the world, there’s a great way to quickly spot the spam in your in-box without even using an anti-spam program.
I simply arrange the e-mail by time. The stuff that arrives during the early morning is almost always spam. Most of my buddies and co-workers are asleep at 1:30 a.m. but the spammers use automated software that doesn’t need sleep. So a huge percentage of the spam I get arrives in the early morning hours.
By the way, do you have any thoughts on why x-rated spam would decline - the article wasn’t much help in explaining the why of this.
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