Unbelievable

[den]

I'm in the process of moving to a new ISP. This account hasn't existed until now, was never advertised, and uses my full name as a username so it is 13 letters long. The account was activated at 4.30pm, and when I checked the email just now there was a pr0n spam there.

un-fucking-believable.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

These days spammers aren't even aiming at specific addresses very often, as much as they are firing spam at (random combination of letters and numbers)@(your ISP) in the hopes of hitting something. I've gotten spams where the headers were aiming at things like aaaaaaaaaa@[site], aaaaaaaaab@[site], aaaaaaaaac@[site], etc, in the hopes of finding a match. My email address begins with a Z.

This is going on perpetually. Bounces are sometimes filtered out, and sometimes they aren't in the hopes of someone taking up an address in the future.

And that's why spam is currently sucking down an unbelievable eighty percent of the internet's entire bandwidth and CPU pools.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I work on the black hole theory. All spam that comes in is dumped to trash by Spam Assassin, with no bounce or acknowledgement. Getting it once is bad enough, but bouncing it back is doubling the problem so I just suck it up.