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SPAM is out of control!!! (none / 0) (#2)
by FaaGaaWee on Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 12:31:27 PM PDT

I don't know what is going on but in the last 8 months the amount of daily spam to my email and my wife's email has quadrupled! I get 75 to 125 spam messages on Monday's and between 50 to 100 the rest of the week. It seems like Saturday nights are quiet with only 25 to 50 spam messages. If I go away for a few days I have to delete all mail. I can't even begin to invest the time it would take to go through them all so I loose real mail. Just 2 days ago an email server that I setup was some how compromised by a spammer. In 3 days time they were able to send almost 50,000 emails. It wasn't until the server ran out of disk space from all the NDR's sent to the administrators email box that it was caught. I won't be happy and /or feel like something is being done until I see some spamming turd going to jail because of this bill. I can't even let my daughter have her own PRIVATE email address because I have to control what gets sent to her. I really don't think that most political representatives use the internet anywhere near as much as say someone between the ages of 25 ~ 40. So if they don't use it then they probably don't see the problem. If I stuck a sticker on their front door asking them if they want to enlarge something would they get upset? What if it were enough stickers to cover they whole door? and I did it everyday? I have paid for and tried numerous anti spam tools and nothing that I have tried is 100%. I'm tired of spending money to prevent something I never asked for! I do like the idea of resending the spam to a bunch of politicians but I'm not about "2 wrongs to make it right" kind of thinking. Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!! <End of Gripe>



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