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Re: Usenet-Next - A proposal to create a very strict NNTP network with no spam

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On 06/05/17 19:30, Michael Black wrote:

> But, I thought a real issue with spam was harvesting of email addreses, 
> to use to send spam via email.  Even that doesn't seem as bad as it once 
> was, though maybe that too gets well filtered.

I think this was an issue in the old days when there was more users in 
the usergroups, nowadays you just setup a site claiming to give out a 
free ipad and then post the link on facebook and you collect a lot of 
emails.

Sure spamfilters on mail servers have become better and spf/dkim/dmarc 
has helped to filer out some sources too.

I tend to create a new email address when I join something, so that I 
know if spam sent to me is due of a site been hacked or they sell email 
addresses, when you get a spam to a such email, you just disable it and 
stop using the offending site.


> I can't remember what year, but there was one deluge, I think it was the 
> fall, where if I didn't clear out my inbox every few hours, it would be 
> swamped.  It was one wave of spam, really an attack, carrying something 
> fairly large, but I've never seen something so relentless.  It was 
> clearly using email addresses taken from newsgroups, and then after a 
> short period, it stopped.

Could be the time when mailserver admins became aware of the importance 
to filter away spam to keep customers.

Still 70% of all mail is considered to be spam, how much you get depends 
on your mail service provider and how many stupid online lotteries where 
you give away your email to win an ipad you entered. :P


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  //Aho

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