Re: Phisher tricks other phishers into doing the dirty work for him...

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> per day is maybe a dozen.  I am not at all certain HOW you manage
>>> to get a few hundred thousand spams per day;
> 
> For one thing, we're comparing apples and oranges.  Or rather full
> grown apples and orange seeds.  Your dozen is almost certainly
> downstream of some heavy filtering.  My hundreds of thousands is
> upstream of all filtering.  The number that get through to me is
> roughly the same as the number that get through to you.

For my server, the count since Friday, 2-1 is:
6756 blocked by DNS-based block lists
464 directed to unknown recipients
95 rejected by SpamAssassin

No spam in my inbox since Friday...

> Much of it may be left over from when I asked spammers to remove
> me, and also registered on all of the more than a dozen purported
> universal or global remove lists.  I did this not with any expectation
> that anyone would remove me, but just so that I could say I had done
> so, to avoid any criticism that I hadn't even asked to be removed.

This may be the source of most of your problems. The stats I listed
represent the total traffic to my six registered domains and it's still
several orders of magnitude lower than yours. Not that I'm
complaining...

	Robert
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Robert K. Shull                           Email: rkshull at rosettacon dot
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