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For the past week or so I've been getting 2-3K spam every 3 hours (when my fetchmail prog runs and SpamAssasin does its biz).

A public email address is just not a viable proposition anymore.

Not sure about sheer volume, but I have noticed a significant increase in the number of virus-laden spam. Had to turn off Norton email protect (per one of your previous posts), because it halted mail when doing unattended fetch, despite a setting that suggests it continue processing.

Every morning I get about 1.5 meg of spam. 252 spams this morning. Outlook 2003 does an excellent job of filtering, so I don't see most of it (though I worry about false positives, but really don't have time to constantly scan).

On the road, I sometimes use a PDA to get mail, but at 14.4 kps it can get very expensive because of spam.

A real blight on society. Wish there were something we could do about it.

It's not just you. I've noticed spammers are running dictionary attacks on my domain more frequently recently. I also suspect they're doing more swapping of lists of addresses.

My inbox spam count has risen to between 1,200 and 1,500 items a day, up from about 600-800 a few weeks back. Also, in a similar vein to what Seth writes, I find a significant increase in events of spoofing my address, as well as creating spoof addresses that appear to have come from my domain and my server.

I have two noms du webplume, and they are getting many offers to increase the size of their breasts and penises, and to also make them wrinkle-free. The wrinkle-free, enlarged breasts and penises can get great mortgages, go out on dates with men or women (many more women than men, it seems) from their neighborhood who have read the online profiles of these noms du webplume. Who knew that these fictitious characters would fill out online profiles?!?!?

They can also never have to worry about their eyeglass lenses again, can get all sorts of drugs cheap and prescription-free, and then go on free vacations!

When they come home from those vacations these lucky non-existent entities can get free software that would otherwise cost mucho dinero, they can have online access to places that will send them unlimited movies, music, and games. Not only that, but they can get really legal descramblers for their cable boxes, or just toss out the cable and get their whole house set up with a satellite dish!

Once they've settled in and calmed down after all of that, they can operate one of many home-based internet businesses, barely work, and make more money than any real people might ever dream of.

Then they can use some of that money to get scammed by the suriviving relatives and representatives of once secretly wealthy Africans.

Why is it that these noms du webplume get to have all the fun?

I generally get one or two spams per week at my primary, never-revealed-in public email address. (Not one or two thousand - one or two!) I use hotmail dumps or mailshell.com redirectors to obscure all others (ie ones that may be publicly revealed).

You have my sympathies, but with you having this sort of problem and Dave Winer admitting that he installed the spyware-laden version of Kazaa lately (rather than one of the excellent and spyware free alternative Fasttrack clients) I'm rapidly losing what little faith I had in the blogerati being tech-savvy! ;-)

I use spam-dump addresses, or a services like mailinator and spamgourmet to sign up with stuff.

I use different pop3 freebie accts for blog/forum comments and newsletters that don't have a newsfeed; they're starting to get pretty spammed up. I'm going to have to shut a few down, but I need to figure out which newsletters are on which disposable addresses first =^)

I am using always the temporary email service at mytrashmail.com

myTrashMail.com is pretty simple and streightforward. No password or prior signup is need. I telling you this sign up's are a hassel itself! So you account is created on the fly with myTrashMail.com

I use myTrashMail.com daily. Its even faster than a web based login at Hotmail.

You even can make a shorcut bookmark like: http://www.mytrashmail.com/myTrashMail_inbox.aspx?email=test

west brom rule

Mailinator rocks. Never had any luck with mytrashmail