Most of my email accounts are mercifully low-spam, including the .Mac account that’s been the center of my online world since way back when it was a wee little free iTools account.
For the last few months, though, several spams a day have crept through whatever filtering Apple is doing … stock spam. Or rather, image files with stock spam. According to this USA Today article, image spam is increasing in volume and confounding spam filters all around the InterTubes.
To add to the annoyance, Mail.app’s heuristic spam filtering also turns a blind eye to this new leech on the scrotum of civilization.
Bastards.
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“…this new leech on the scrotum…!” Yikes! Are you sure civilization Has a scrotum? I mean, what if civilazation’s a girl?
It does seem to me that ’spam’ in all its forms is proliferating lately, but, then, maybe, like junk mail in the snail-mail world, this helps pay for the real messages?
Spam sure is increasing. The number of spam compared to legitimate messages is out of control and has been for a good while.
Unfortunately, spam does nothing to help pay for legitimate messages; on the contrary, it drives up the costs for everybody on the Internet and clogs mail servers. There is nothing remotely good about it.
Gods, you’re right! Suddenly my pathetic little Yahoo address is getting Scores of spam emails Every Day!
And it doesn’t help finance anything? You know, I hate advertsing….
I don’t mind advertising, per se, when it’s part of an agreed-upon value exchange—you can watch this show without paying any money if you’ll watch our ads, or you can buy this newspaper for cheap as long as you look at the ads. I don’t mind it, since the consumer has an option to opt-out: No, whatever value your show has is not enough to make me watch the ads in return.
The thing with spam is that it only takes, and doesn’t give, in completely parasitic fashion.
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/04/a-mail-app-rule-for-catching-image-spam/
That should help.