Re: [tlug] Using autoresponse

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@??>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:09:08 +0100, Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@??>
> wrote:
>
>   
> > it would of course get it's share of background noise.
> >     
>
> Some of my e-mail addresses that have never been disclosed on the 'Net
>   
My impression is that most spamtargets are now harvested from peoples 
addressbooks and Inboxes through bot-activity and malware, not from the www.

> and that are consequently used as spam traps (which, incidentally, feed
> directly into SpamCop's official spamtrap feed) receive up to 100k
> messages a day of "background noise".
>   
Jeez, that is impressive and scary. Is there any "protection" in front 
of these adresses?

I think I get around 1k spam a day on my accounts - a handful make it 
through the filters to my inbox, but nothing significant enough to 
actually irritate me.

kind regards,
-sig

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