I for one agree that we need to stand our ground. Changing your email accounts is acceptance of defeat IMO, but the tempation is certainly there. Another non-trivial effect of spam is the increasing problem of valid email being lost to flawed or inappropriately implemented spam filtering tools, either at the user or server level. Fred Langa performed an interesting experiment to see just how much of a problem this is for your legitimate email traffic. His methodology was a little flawed, but the results were interesting nonetheless. For a brief overview, see: http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-01-12.htm#2 A complete description of the tests, and the group-by-group results, are posted at: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1730001 6 Regards, ---------------------------------- Andrew Morse Network Administrator Longbottom Coffee and Tea Inc. http://www.longbottomcoffee.com 1-800-288-1271 Fax 1-503-681-0944 ---------------------------------- <<<Joe St Sauver stated on Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:37 AM>>> I'm like you -- I'm going to stay with the username I've had for a long time, and stand and fight. Trying to hide is a losing strategy, unless you want to just lurk rather than fully participate. In terms of spam volume, because we block at connect time, a single blocked connection can translate to a thousand or even ten thousand pieces of blocked spam, but you may find the spam blocking statistics at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/spam-volume-stats.html of interest, at least in terms of trends. Some of the growth is associated with virus-related blocking, but then we all know that viruses and spam are just different parts of a complete ecosystem, right? E.g., see: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217 Regards, Joe
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