Gmail does a pretty darned good job of filtering this sort of thing. Apple’s iCloud does too. I almost never get spam and it’s never the really bad stuff.
Bob S > On Jun 8, 2015, at 07:46 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > > Kay C Lan wrote: > > > I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now; > > so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever. > > > > Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day; > > typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use > > List user with an AOL account. > > > > Up until yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every > > couple of months. > > > > Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more than > > the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account. > > This is a public list where the archives are publicly available: > <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > Every resource publicly available is easily spiderable. > > I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the > aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets. I've been seeing a lot > more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots claiming to be > Russian women who want to marry an American. > > There is no cure. Spam consumes so much of our Internet that an estimated > 5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination because all > systems are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam. > > Windows still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets are run > on unsuspecting end-users' machines. The rest are often installed on Web > servers that didn't stay on top of the updates for their CMS frameworks. > When we combine millions of compromised servers with tens of millions of > compromised desktop machines, the botnets can only win. > > Sorry, don't have a "glass half full" for this one. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
