Sudden Increase in Spam With Change in Forum

[Terence McDonagh]

No noticeable increase on my account.

[Frank Petronio]

1000 a day, just like normal

It does ebb and flow as the spammers try new techniques. I'll get 50 of one type for a few days then it gets "learnt" by the filter and gets junked.

[robc]

options state that allowing vCard download will provide your email address to receivers so don't switch vCard download on.

Brian, have you used vCard?

[Kirk Gittings]

Interesting. I have noticed a dramatic increase in spam. I did not make any connection to the change though. Maybe?

[Tom Westbrook]

Thanks for that tip. I turned all vCard downloads off for all users. I'll see if I can't just remove the option altogether from being selected, or add some warning text about SPAM. I'm not sure who had it turned on (26 users did, though)--it's in some proprietary code format in the database.

[Tom Westbrook]

I should add that I'm not sure that it caused any problems, but it's a definite possibility.

[Kirk Gittings]

This raises another question. Which email program filters spam the best. I use Eudora which does a pretty good job but as the years go by and I build up more and more specific spam filters, Eudora seems to take forever to load as it has to load so many filters. Any thoughts?

[Ralph Barker]

FWIW, I use Mozilla Thunderbird as the user agent, and its spam filter seems pretty efficient. It shifts what it thinks is spam into the usual junk folder, and "learns" quickly.

[Scott Rosenberg]

This raises another question. Which email program filters spam the best. I use Eudora which does a pretty good job but as the years go by and I build up more and more specific spam filters, Eudora seems to take forever to load as it has to load so many filters. Any thoughts?

i get about 100 spam messages a day, and the only effective screen i've found is this...
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

after a day or so, it will become > 99% effective.

[robc]

This raises another question. Which email program filters spam the best. I use Eudora which does a pretty good job but as the years go by and I build up more and more specific spam filters, Eudora seems to take forever to load as it has to load so many filters. Any thoughts?

spamassassin is very popular with ISP's

With a good ISP you should also get spam filtering at the ISP and have options to either delete, re-route, or tag the subject line so that you can filter incoming spam to a different mailbox. Spamassasin allows low, medium, high risk etc and also it can switched to learn. Also options for allowed or disallowed domains/email addreses.
Check with your ISP or get your own copy.