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FishPants
The Art Of Pants
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join:2001-11-19
Canada Eh?
Lower spam today everyone?

Ha.. That makes sense on why my hotmail junkmail folder is decidedly empty today (been a long time since that's happened!).


Poopsmith
That's Mr. Smith To You.

join:2003-03-12
Boulder, CO
Amazingly good point. I usually have at least 15 spam emails everyday. Today there is only 4. Coincidence?


newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
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join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD
·Vonage

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Apparently, Hotmail had been setting "spamtrap" addresses from May 12 to June 13 as part of the investigation into Scott Richter & OptInRealBig. Millions of email spams were sent by the Richter & Company . . . 8,000 of which were to the spamtrap addresses.
Note: The following is a .pdf file - »www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2003/dec/syn1.pdf

Conjecture
Spammers may now know that Hotmail is "sprinkled" with these spamtrap addresses and may be laying off sending spam to Hotmail in order to avoid hitting these spamtraps and drawing attention to themselves.
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The Rules of Spam | Maryland's New Anti-Spam Law
Where are we going? And what's with the hand basket?


Sarick
It's Only Logical
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join:2003-06-03
USA

edit:
December 18th, @11:24PM

I've been reporting every single spam that gets past the Hotmail filters.

My filters are fairly limited to ten rules and YES SPAM has started cutting back.

(Edit) LOL it's span not Spam.


starstuff
Fly By Wire
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Mcallen, TX

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Lets see if the trend go down
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