Thursday, September 07, 2006

10,000 + spam messages

Is anyone else getting spammed furiously at the moment? Most of my spam goes straight into my Gmail spam folder -- Gmail has a pretty good filter. But because of the odd bit of bleed-through into my Inbox, one can spot trends and I noticed this morning that I had received over 10,000 (ten thousand) spam messages since last night. That is a seriously large amount, isn't it? Good thing I didn't have to delete them all manually.

3 comments:

Danny Zacharias said...

I have a gmail account and i am not getting hit like that. Is your gmail address posted anywhere online? on the duke website, or NTGateway? That may explain it.

David said...

there was a bit of a jump last night ... I usually get about 30 overnight and this a.m. it was close to 200. my forum is getting spammed big time right now too ...

Mark Goodacre said...

Thanks for the comments. Danny: everything forwards to the Gmail address -- Duke, NTGateway.com etc., but it's the latter that generates most of the spam.