"Tony Raven" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Tim Cain wrote: Me neither - had one SPAM today where the message was so heavily buried in random
> word lists to hide it from the filters that it did a good job of
hiding
> it from me. The SPAMmer's goal these days seem less concerned with
putting a
> message in front of me that might tempt me and more towards getting a
message
> past the filters at any cost.
>
> Still fails my #1 filter though. I never ever buy anything from a
SPAMmer.
>
> Curiously though enough people must give their credit card details to
order
> products or remortgage their houses with anonymous deliberately hidden
folks
> in China to make it worthwhile.
Well, if the spammer has DSL or cable, they can whomp out emails at about 25-30 per second until the
cows come home, more if they have access to 0wned pc's and a few open relays.
The return rate for spam is in the fractional percent rate, but this seems to be enough to pay the
bills and the ISP subscription. For the top few, it seems to be enough to live in opulence - witness
Alan Ralsky and suchlike self proclaimed spam kings.
>Anyone know where I can get an IP based filter because I would quite happily shut out anything
>coming from Chinese
or
> Korean IP ranges these days.
May be use the spam blacklists such as SPEWS and suchlike?
Cheers,
Tim.
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