In a previous article, "G.R. Patterson III" said:
Paul Tomblin wrote:

I get 2,000 spams a day (and rising rapidly), not counting the Microsoft
executables that are deleted before the spam filter sees them.

Wow! I'm only getting about 1% of that.

Several reasons for that:
1. I've got several domains registered in my name and email address
2. I've got my email address on a bunch of web sites
3. My email is quoted in several Usenet group's FAQs
4. I've had the same email address since 1996, and the email I had before
that is still forwarded to this one.
5. I've also got several "functional" email addresses (news@, webmaster@,
postmaster@) that are forwarded to this one.
6. I post to Usenet far more than I should. I checked recently and Google
had about 10,000 posts from me just at this email address. (do the math -
10,000 posts since 1996, that means about 1500 posts a year, or 4 a day)
7. I've posted to mailing lists that are archived on the web, further
increasing my visibility and vulnerability.

BTW: I get a ton of spam sent to an address that has ONLY been used to
register a domain, not anything else. Unfortunately it's a requirement to
give a real address for registering a domain, so I can't just drop the
whole thing.

I also put a non-existant email address in a comment field on the
http://xcski.com/ web site. It has never been a valid address, nor has it
ever been mentioned on Usenet or in email, and I see spam bouncing off of
it every day. If I knew how, I'd set up something to automatically
blacklist any sender using that address.

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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full
house and four people died. -- Steven Wright