100,000

[gfish]

I just received my 100,000th spam from when I started filtering several years ago. That's a rather mind-boggling amount of penis enlargement, stock tips, virility drugs, phishing scams, dieting systems, home loan offers and incomprehensible randomness.

What do I win? MORE SPAM!

Comments

[creeves78.livejournal.com]

ya know, i don't seem to get much spam in my personal email, but you would not believe the number of penis enlargement ads i get in my work email. almost makes me wish i had a penis to enlarge! :P

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

All my procmail logs:

  51697 16% ( 29.6/d, 1/48.6m )  Inbox
 203301 65% (116.5/d, 1/12.4m )  Spam
 311134     (178.3/d, 1/8.1m  )  Total in 249.29w

Just the last two:

  36599 13% ( 27.5/d, 1/52.4m )  Inbox
 203301 76% (152.6/d, 1/9.4m  )  Spam
 265169     (199.1/d, 1/7.2m  )  Total in 190.26w

Since I last rotated them:

  14400 18% ( 37.0/d, 1/38.9m )  Inbox
  57963 76% (149.1/d, 1/9.7m  )  Spam
  76189     (195.9/d, 1/7.3m  )  Total in 55.55w

And this doesn't count the false negatives. Which have historically accounted for a dozen or so per day and have, in the last couple weeks, gone up to several dozen per day. I'm thinking I'm going to install SpamAssassin when I upgrade rigel, and use that as a front-line before it gets to my filter.

only 100,000?

[irgth.livejournal.com]

Back when I started running my own mail server, I thought the best thing in the world was Postfix's "luser relay". Anytime I needed a new email address, I just made one up. No need to actually make an account. Any user at any of 5 hosts would go into my inbox. Tracking who was giving away my email address became trivial.

Then about 9 months ago, some damned piece of excrement decided to modify his (or possibly hers, but I doubt it) spam machine. Instead of looping through user1@host1, user2@host2, user3@host3, the script loops through user1@host1, user1@host2, user1@host3, user2@host1, and I think you see the pattern.

I have one hostname that has been used heavily for about a decade, 2 I've had for a couple of year and 2 more that I've had just over a year. That first hostname alone is getting about 1000 spams daily. The other 4 combined get a few hundred daily.