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This time I'm a believer. My various anti-spam tools had been showing a running accumulation of junk mail totaling around 1,000 items - stashed neatly in a single folder to smolder and then be sent to oblivion on a rolling basis after being in purgatory for 1 week. A few weeks ago the count suddenly dropped to under 500 and held there.
After this latest anti-spam effort my junk folder has - incredibly - fewer than 100 items. I can't remember when I've seen such little junk mail. I never pay much attention to the junk mail folder but the crap does slow things down and occasionally causes false "new mail" notifications and other minor annoyances. Plus I'm a neat freak and just hate junk. I'm quite happy by this turn of events! Wonder how long it will last?
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I've noticed this too; My "held message" reports from pobox.com are a single page these days, not the 2-3 pages from before!
The "experts" over on NANOG think that volumes will return to normal in "a few weeks", alas.
I'm sure the spammers will be creative enough to make a comeback. But I think the recent actions show there is a way to attack spam effectively...
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