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  • OT: Suddenly no junk mail coming thru anymore. Good!

    From bilsch01@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 23 10:12:55 2023
    Three years ago one of my email accounts started getting a lot of junk
    mail every day. Ten or more every day. It just started all of the sudden
    about 3 years ago. A few days ago it went down to just 2 or 3 junk
    mails per day. Now, for the last 2 days, there are none at all. That's
    great, yes indeed!
    Does anybody know what's up with that?
    TIA. Bill S.

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  • From bilsch01@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 23 10:23:07 2023
    On 8/23/2023 10:12 AM, bilsch01 wrote:
    Three years ago one of my email accounts started getting a lot of junk
    mail every day. Ten or more every day. It just started all of the sudden about 3 years ago.  A few days ago it went down to just 2 or 3 junk
    mails per day. Now, for the last 2 days, there are none at all. That's
    great, yes indeed!
    Does anybody know what's up with that?
    TIA.   Bill S.

    To clarify I should mention I have been using a junk mail filter so all
    junk goes to a junk mail folder. The sudden change is there's nothing
    coming into the junk mail folder now.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 23 10:47:25 2023
    bilsch01 wrote:
    Three years ago one of my email accounts started getting a lot of junk
    mail every day. Ten or more every day. It just started all of the sudden about 3 years ago.  A few days ago it went down to just 2 or 3 junk
    mails per day. Now, for the last 2 days, there are none at all. That's
    great, yes indeed!
    Does anybody know what's up with that?

    Spam is the result of a process, which process involves that an address
    is on a list.

    Sequence: your address gets on a spamlist, your filter deals w/ its
    spam, later that particular spam process 'goes away' (for some reason).

    The distinct possibility exists that spamming of that address will recur
    in the future, from the 'original' process or some process 'spawned'
    from the previous.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Allodoxaphobia@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 23 20:35:31 2023
    On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:12:55 -0700, bilsch01 wrote:
    Three years ago one of my email accounts started getting a lot of junk
    mail every day. Ten or more every day. It just started all of the sudden about 3 years ago. A few days ago it went down to just 2 or 3 junk
    mails per day. Now, for the last 2 days, there are none at all. That's
    great, yes indeed!
    Does anybody know what's up with that?

    If you're a MSN email customer it may be due to their habit of
    seemingly blacklisting large, random CIDRs. My ISP is not on any
    blacklist. In fact the Sys Admin is death on either incoming
    or outgoing spam. He's been that way since I came onboard 17
    years ago.

    A week ago all my emails to folks on MSN started returning

    <example*userid@hotmail.com>: host
    hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com[104.47.58.33] said: 550 5.7.1
    Unfortunately, messages from [xx.zzz.66.34] weren't sent. Please contact
    your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block
    list (S3150). You can also refer your provider to
    http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.
    [DM6NAM10FT058.eop-nam10.prod.protection.outlook.com
    2023-08-20T21:19:38.865Z 08DBA0655112DAAF] (in reply to MAIL FROM command)

    My Sys Admin has been unable to receive _any_ response from MSN.
    And, of course, any email attempts to postmaster@ are also failed;
    even tho' spec's require that email addy be open.

    So, if you're a MSN email client, you may not only be getting less spam,
    you may be getting a lot less legitimate email, too.

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  • From candycane@21:1/172 to Mike Easter on Thu Aug 24 09:15:35 2023
    The distinct possibility exists that spamming of that address will recur in the future, from the 'original' process or some process 'spawned'
    from the previous.

    Don't companies buy email lists? That could be why that happens.

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