Spammer Stupidity

    As crafty as spammers are in attempts to circumvent spam filters and hiding their true identities, it never ceases to amaze me just how stupid these people can be all the while!

    98 percent of the spam we receive is sent to email addresses at digitalimagedelights.com that are no longer valid. We know this because we examine our spam filter log regularly to monitor the performance of our Spam Vault filters. Our customers also enjoy the benefit of using Spam Vault on their web sites hosted on our servers.

    Sooo, if any spammers are actually reading this, the following email addresses have been deleted long ago. That means they are no longer valid. Any email sent to these addresses get sent to /dev/null, the Unix/Linux equivalent of the Black Hole. Please demonstrate some intelligence and delete these addresses from your list(s).

    Last but not least, there is that self explanatory email address, spambogus, that gets an amazing amount of spam everytime someone idiot does a domain lookup on digitalimagedelights.com, obviously not giving much thought as to why this email address is named what it is.

    If you have a web site, the best way to avoid receiving gobs of spam is to NOT place your email address(es) on your web site, especially in plain text. When you do this spammers don't have to visit your site to obtain your email address. They use special software that searches web sites for email addresses and stores them in a database.

    And oh by the way, my name is NOT Barbra.