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Spam filter conspiracy?

Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
Reason for spam?

Examples:
My former college account:
They implemented a spam filter in late 2002. Less then a weak later the ammount of spam I was getting went from less then 1 spam per month to arround 5 spams per day.

My current ISP:
They implemented a spam filter a couple years back. Before that I was getting no spam on the account. After that I have been getting arround 5-10 spamms per week. I have never use that account for any website submissions either.

Counter-examples:
My forwarding server:
CJB.Net - This server forwards any emails sent to [email]anything@mysite.cjb.net[/email] to my main e-mail account. I get up to 2 spamms per week (often less) here and this one I advertise on quite a few websites and used in signups - been using it as such for 6 years. It has no spam filter.

My server:
No spam filter. [email]anything@mysite.com[/email] gets read as my primary e-mail, unless it is a hosted account. I get usually no more then 1 spam per week, often none. I have this e-mail listed on several websites and use in signups, though I have only had it for about 7 months.


The interesting coincidence?
E-mail addies that use spam filters get more spam. This spam started soon after the spam filters were installed.

E-mail addies that use no spam filters get almost no spam.

Coincidence? :eek:

--RC

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    My ISP-provided account got spam filters implemented last year. I've never used it for website submission, but a few months after they put the filters on I checked out the folder they go into and it was overflowing with spam.
    My cjb account, used all over the place, gets 1 or 2 spam a week.
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    Just to counter this: My metallisoft.com account gets atleast 30 spam e-mails a day, and I only used it for general use (ie: registration for forums I regularly visit, conversation with those I know), but only gave it out to people I know. It has no spam filtering what-so-ever. I never posted it openly. The only way that happened is if a spambot used a dictionary attack, and added the e-mail addresses that didn't bounce back to the list. Its getting to the point where I have to use anal retentive filters just to keep that shit from piling up in my inbox and hope to hell that it doesn't eat any legitimate mail.

    Now of course I use my gmail accounts for damn near everything, and I rarely see any spam (maybe 1 a week at the most).
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Let me add about my college account that everyone I knew in college at the time had the same exact thing happen. Within a week of them putting the spam filter in, everyone was getting spammed. We all wondered if the school put the spam filter in to flag (not delete) spam and then sold all our e-mial addies for revenue.
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    You probably got hit by a spambot....although it wouldn't suprise me if they did sell it off. Its not like its not happened before. *cough*AOL*cough*
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    RC, what happen to your university was probably the same thing that happen to mine. Here in oregon the student directory is open to public view, including the email adresses. A spam company came in and got the emails, and the university was powerless to stop it. Spam filled out university accounts like no other. The same thing probably happened to your university, and instead of making the situation public, they just added spam filters.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Our e-mail addies were only accessable inside the university firewall on an inside server. So if a spambot grabbed them, it had to originate from a worm on a student system (which wouldn't really surprised me). But it still seems more then coincidence that it happened only days after the spam filter was put in.
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