Comments on: AOL Users See Sharp Decrease in Spam

By: Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics

Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:22:58 +0000

AOL Offers New Spam and Virus Resistant Software for New Year
America Online (AOL), one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the United States, if not in the universe, is sticking it to spammers again, this time by offering an updated version of its software which is designed to be…

By: Lockergnome's Net Patrol

Lockergnome's Net Patrol — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:12:02 +0000

Porn is Out, Drugs are In
Timothy Leary would be proud. As a nation we are turning away from lurid sex displays in which women are debased and objectified, and turning towards drugs. At least in our spam. According AOL, and based on a recent analysis…

By: ted keys

ted keys — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:57:09 +0000

It’s not just AOL. My company uses Spameater to scour the junk email from 5 email accounts. Some of which have email addresses published on our web site, and are therefore ripe targets for address harvesting spiders. These accounts suddenly went from around 600-800 spams/day to about 200/day. It seemed to happen about the same time the legal pressure got turned up. I don’t know if that’s what did it, but I’m happy to see the reduction. (I have to look through the eaten messages to find non-spam that might have gotten accidentally eaten by the program.)

By: Richi Jennings

Richi Jennings — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:42:26 +0000

Ping to http://ferris.typepad.com/ferris_research_weblog/2004/12/aol_spam_damn_s.html “Today’s AOL press release about spam volumes makes surprising reading… It’s a complicated area and we can’t help but to presume that someone at AOL has been confused by statistics.”

By: codeman38

codeman38 — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:30:00 +0000

Of course, the big question is how many of those ’spams’ are actual legitimate messages. I’ve heard a few stories of someone having a message blocked by AOL as spam because it just happened to contain a URL with a particular (common) domain name in it.

By: Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics

Lockergnome's Windows Fanatics — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:08:50 +0000

AOL Users See Sharp Decrease in Spam
ISP giant America Online (AOL) has announced that their users have seen a dramatic decrease in spam over the course of the past year. According to AOL, spam messages reported by members for this past month, November 2004, numbered about…