I must have been foolish to think it wouldn’t happen to me. I guess I’m going to have to implement some kind of anti-spam solution on my blog. Could probably upgrade to WordPress 1.5 now that it’s out, too.
Stay tuned…
Today’s spam brought to you by the word Rolex.
I’m fascinated by e-mail spam. I run my own mail server through my G4 at home, and have several layers of spam filtering installed on the system. Anyone who follows spam closely will recognize different styles or tell-tale keywords that will indicate a message is spam. A lot of these can be weeded out even before they make it into bayesian filtering systems such as Spamassassin.
5 new spam messages showed up in my Spam box this morning; all of them advertising Rolex watches. It looks like Rolex is the new Vicodin.
…and shot. Actually, I’ve never really had a lot of trouble with spam. Oh sure, I get just as many requests for money transfers, offers for breast or penial implants, or just plain gibberish, as the next person, but I have a pretty laid-back way of dealing with it. I have a couple of junk e-mails I use for pretty much anything: signing on to forums, purchasing items on line, that sort of thing. I never check that mail except at the time of registration or purchase, and never with a POP mail program (i.e. only strictly with a web-mail service). My personal e-mail is just that… personal. Of course, that doesn’t stop the brute-force spammers who have probably already tried every permutation of an e-mail address possible.
At least that’s how I use to operate. Now that I’ve been running my own mail server for a couple of years now, I recently installed some technology to combat the luncheon meat. It’s been working so well, I’ve redirected all my e-mail through it. I’ve even managed to reclaim some old addresses I haven’t used in years because they’ve been so bogged down with spam.
Now when the odd spam gets through (ahem), I almost look forward to it. Gives me something to do. I could use this as a basis for a Master’s Thesis whenever I get back to school.
On a related note, is it “penial” or “penile?” My dictionaries seem to imply both are correct, but Mac OS X seems to only like “penile.”