On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 07:34:17 -0500 Philo said: >Do people with listserv lists really get 5+ spams/day? I'm running a law >school mailing list (surely a high priority target for the political spams) >GATED TO USENET, and might have seen three spams on the list in the past >month. Here is my 1/20/97 breakdown. It took about 20 mins for me to figure this out... List Direct Spams Indirect Spams -------- ------------ -------------- Airline 4 Railroad 5 26 Stamps 3 Now, the direct spams list are those sent directly to the list address. All are trapped because my lists are semi-moderated. The indirect spams are those that come via the bit.listserv.railroad newsgroup (moderated, so all trapped). They end up as coming into the railroad list and trapped. I suspect that peoples mileage will vary because of several things. First, Airline and Railroad are widely advertised on the net, so there are a great many places that people can get the list address from for their spam database (from WWW sites to the various lists of lists). All three lists have a minimum of 10 local re-distribution boards. They generate a few spams each year. STAMPS is less advertised, and that seems to be the mail reason for the lower number of spams. Stamps moved recently, and that seems to have cut down on the number of spams for some time, but that's changing. Friday night seems to be the killer night for spammers. I got 17 direct spams between 9pm Friday and 9pm Saturday. On usenet, some groups are clobbered while others are pretty clean. ** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ** Geert K. Marien : [log in to unmask] (Bitnet: GKMQC@PUCC) ** ** ListOwner: AIRLINE, RAILROAD, STAMPS, The INDIA List ** ** (All contents are my own opinions - unless otherwise stated) ** ** Watch EastEnders - The Soap Opera for REAL People! ** ** ------------------------------------------------------------------ **