{"id":41,"date":"2003-11-19T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-03-26T02:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T08:34:05","slug":"spam-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2003\/11\/spam-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I started using the wonderful e-mail spam filter <a href=\"http:\/\/popfile.sourceforge.net\/\">POPFile<\/a> at home a few weeks ago&#8230; I would have estimated the percentage of &#8220;spam&#8221; e-mails I get was about 85% &#8211; but no, it&#8217;s worse!:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spam.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bdragon.com\/lair\/_images\/spam.gif\" width=\"290\" height=\"209\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nNote also that this makes a grand total of 2,881 e-mails in just over 3 weeks (of which 2,563 are spam).<br \/>\nAs if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/log\/2003\/10\/comment_spam.shtml\" title=\"We've all seen that comment spam is becoming a serious problem. Particularly on Movable Type weblogs, where the generated pages are all very similar in structure and semantics, spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google.\">blog comment spam<\/a> that forced me to turn off comments on this blog (for now at least) wasn&#8217;t bad enough&#8230;  Funny thing is I hardly had any spam e-mail at my home \/ personal addresses until the very week that Network Solutions \/ Verisign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/TECH\/industry\/02\/19\/NSI.sells.data.idg\/index.html\" title=\"Verisign is stepping up its efforts to sell marketers some of the routine information gathered when a company registers a Web address with its subsidiary Network Solutions (NSI).\">starting selling the e-mails<\/a> associated with my (personal) domain name registrations.  Thanks Network Solutions!<br \/>\nI guess I must be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2003\/Sep\/1020323.htm\" title=\"Spam Will Grow To 60 Percent Of All E-mail Traffic In 2004 Says Gartner\">right on track<\/a> for helping to up that spam average though? *yay*<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started using the wonderful e-mail spam filter POPFile at home a few weeks ago&#8230; I would have estimated the percentage of &#8220;spam&#8221; e-mails I get was about 85% &#8211; but no, it&#8217;s worse!:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,78,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-41","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-internet","8":"tag-security","9":"tag-spam","10":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}