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Tuesday, August 3, 2004
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PCs hijacked to spew spam: "Potentially millions of home computers could unwittingly be helping the scourge of spam to spread." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Record number of spam messages -- Comment()
Yesterday I had a new record of junk e-mail, over 600 messages in a week. In June the amount of spam was halved, but in the spring the deluge was almost the same as it is now. I was hoping for a permanent degrease, but apparently this will not happen. A magazine editor told about his problem with junk e-mail: he can't use spam filtering because then many legitimate messages from writers of articles might go missing. So he has to browse through all of his spam by hand. My problems are small in comparison. I am now using a new server-side filtering system, which probably is better, but at the moment causes some inconveniences. The spam filtering of Mac OS X Mail work nicely, though. The biggest problem with spam filtering is the fact that once in a while some legitimate messages are classified as spam. This sometimes happens to messages from Amazon.com, for example.
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