80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam

The Llama King writes: "According to this AP story at The Houston Chronicle, 80 percent of the e-mail that makes its way into Hotmail's user inboxes is spam. And that does not include the UCE caught by Hotmail's filters. This is the first of a three-part series the Associated Press is doing on spam."

Spam goes both ways

[Mattygfunk1]

80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam

Judging from my inbox it seems that 80% of outgoing email at hotmail is spam.

Where's that mentioned in the article?

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Cindy

[chicoy]

I quite like getting Cindy's email.

Makes me feel good.

It's pretty much the most interesting thing that happens in my day.

hmmm.. I think I need a new job.

This article itself is pure spam

[fluor2]

This article itself is pure spam . . It contains information we allready knew about, and it contains a commercial for Associated Press. If slashdot had a block article button, I would have pressed it.

Bill Gates - I have the answer!

[Captain Kirk]

Bill,

Scott and Larry said you would like to know about this.

Are you tired of churning Hotmail accounts due to spam? Have you ever found yourself wondering if others have inside tips that are holding your back?

Wonder no more. I have the answer. Move Hotmail to Debian Linux, type 'apt-get install spamassassin razor' and your problems will be solved.

Send your credit card details now to pay for my $0.02 worth.

Patrick

Re:Er...

[Kobal]

Last thing I would want is getting my own server hit by spammers. Looking for harvesters this way is a bit like painting your face with dung to know the way flies come from. I'm keeping all of this externalized and distributed, and I haven't read the header of a single piece of pure spam (that is, except newsletters I actually accepted and unsollicited but still worth reading info) for months. On the other hand, I wish I could get disposable snail mail addresses.

Re:Social and technical measures - automatic fines

[GigsVT]

I've written a grep patternfile that does a very good job as far as not causing false positives. It's not going to block 100% of spam, but I have not had it block a legitimate email yet, even corporate newsletters that may look like spam.

If the lameness filter will let me post it, here goes:

(I had to combine some of the shorter lines to get past the fucking lamenessfilter. Lines with a "-" in them should be broken into two lines)

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Disregard the remainder of this message, it was necessary to get around the lameness filter.

Well, now I have to type a bunch of stuff to get past the lame-ass filter. Blah Blah Blah, the cat sat on the fat rat, this is a waste of my time. The ends do not justify the means. I wonder if this line is long enough to raise the average line length yet, maybe I should keep typing. Man, I know why they call it the lameness filter, it is damn lame. 20.3 chars per line now, better type some more to raise that average. Lets see, I've wasted, what, 10 minutes of my life now because of this stupid filter? I wonder how many people just give up by this point. Blah Blah Blah, test test test. Maybe I can paste this line twice.
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Re:Perfect quote to show attitude of spammers

[Tackhead]

> > "I think China is good place to be," Ralsky said. "You don't get the same kind of grief."
>
>
> As well, Ralsky is right, you don't get the same kind of grief, you get worse. But, that's the attitude of a con artist, no true intelligence or consideration for anyone else. I say, send the spammers to China. Hell, I'll pay for their plane ticket even.

Well, if Ralsky physically moves to China (as opposed to merely spamming through Chinese ISPs), I'm all for it.

First - he'll have to spam through Chinese ISPs. Most of us have blocked China's netblocks at the router due to Chinese ISPs' unwillingness to terminate spammers.

Second - I won't pay for his plane ticket. But I will gladly pay Ralsky $5000 for a spam that says "Citizens of China! Bring freedom to Tibet, and bring freedom and prosperity to yourselves by overthrowing the Communist Party and restoring power to the rightful leaders of China, currently in exile in the independent nation of Taiwan!" (I'm sure the Falun Gong would pay Ralsky to spam on their behalf too.)

I'm equally sure that Ralsky, being such a smart entrepren00er and ethikul bidnizman, would take the money and spam from a Chinese ISP. (Ralsky's proved to himself that he's smarter than Verizon by leaving the country to escape judgement, so why should he fear a bunch of dumb Chinks? You hear that, Alan? You're smarter than a bunch of dumb Chinks, aren't you? You'll never get caught!)

30 seconds later, I'd be watching with glee as the aforementioned "dumb Chinks" he's underestimated broke through the door of his Beijing apartment and started beating the living hell out of him for his crimes against the State. Oops, guess it's not like America after all, and they're not as dumb as you thought. Aaw, poor Ralskyboy fall down go splat.

A couple of weeks later, an enterprising PLA soldier with a handycam would have a grainy videotape of Ralsky getting his just desserts - and Ralsky's relatives would be paying for the bullets.

Now, considering the fact he's brainless, spineless, heartless, lily-livered, and terminally short-sighted, I can't imagine any of his organs would be useful for transplantation. (I mean, how many people need an asshole transplant? And even the most desperate colostomy patient probably wouldn't take Ralsky's asshole in a transplant. I mean, having to force your feces to slide through that for the rest of your life? Have a little respect for your own shit, man!)

But yeah. Go to China, Ralsky. Go there, piss off the wrong people, and get your just desserts.

(Any PLA d00dz out there wanna make a bundle? Lots of us, myself included, think government is wholly evil, but you could make up for a lot of that by webcasting Ralsky's arrest, trial, and execution. The number of Americans who'd pay good money to watch such a tape in the millions.)

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