On 8/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to post such an incredibly lame off topic. Over the last week, the amount of spam getting through gmail's filters has gone up hugely for me. It's coming in through the 5 or so email addresses I have that forward to the same account in equal measure, so I can't blame one email address suddenly getting extra exposure. Has anyone else experienced like this? I was previously getting around 1 spam a day making it through the filter, but now it's like 10 or even more per day.
Mine went up drastically a month or two ago. So far today I got about 350 in my spam folder, about 50 which were caught by my own filters but not gmail's (ones going to old retired addresses, which I filter and keep around for the analysis which I'll probably never get around to), and 11 in my inbox. Anecdotally it seems to me that some spammers discovered that putting one or two random words in the subject works wonders on getting through gmail's spam filter. That's one problem with using such a popular email service - the spammers get to test their spam on the filters.
Lots of it is a weird, right-justified format, all nonsense text (jumbled quotations from something or other) whose purpose I can't divine...
Just checked, and yeah, I'm getting the right-justified crap.
Anthony