rocknbil - 3:52 pm on Feb 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Posting here, probably has no real relevance and is foo . . .

6 months ago I got fed up with the spam. Apparently I'd made a few mistakes (the primary one being a "dictionary" address, info@) and my address was being passed around like a cheap . . . bottle of wine. :-)

I changed my email address, went around to every.registered.account and updated them to a new one (this is a phenomenal task), informed all my contacts well in advance.

Then I killed the original email.

Silence. Bliss. 6 wonderfully quiet spam-free months floated by, I turned my filter levels down, it was like 1995 again.

I knew it wouldn't last forever, but two weeks ago my stomach turned and I almost lost the morning's coffee when the first one came in. "Get Rich on eBay." It sickened me.

Ah well, it was good while it lasted . . . I spamcopped it. On a regular basis, 3 a day floated in. Spamcop. Over and over. Every day for a week . . . . .au , .it, .ru servers . . . I began to settle in to the old routine, open, show headers, forward, delete . . . open, show headers, forward, delete . . .

Then it stopped. I haven't seen a new one for a week now. Am I being too hopeful, did it work?

Did spamcop'ing these bozos actually do something positive? Or are they just gathering forces to bomb me with the mother lode of all spam bombs?