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!

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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.