Amount of Spam

Is it me or does the amount of SPAM seem to be declining.?? I have noticed personally about a 50% drop over the last few weeks. Some more of the Spammers locked up perhaps...............yippee

 

Check if your mail server/isp is blocking spam at the source.....

 

My spam-email also dropped 50%, but over a longer period. In the past about 100, now 50 per day.
My ISP is able to block spam, but I don't use that option.
Thunderbird takes care about my spam-emails in one second.
I don't know the reason for this drop, but the only reason why I still get spam are the USERS themselves, who still read and reply to these emails.
These users still believe in fairy tales, St. Nicholas and Santa Claus

 

Dear Eric Albert,
Yes, Bad idea to reply to spam, you end up with hundreds. I suppose its the uninformed that may do this. I use Frontgate MX as a spam filter which 'takes care' of my unwanted mails.
My spam used to be 60 per day now its 20-25, I never answer of course, and I dont allow HTML mails. Seems to be working.....I hope.
I dont know if my ISP is blocking the spam, but I think not.

 

I enjoy reading spam in txt mode to see what new technique they are trying to get past bayesian filters. But I never reply of course. Sometimes I report them.

 

In my newbie time I replied sometimes to these enlargment emails, asking for shortening pills.