Shane Conder's Whateveritis of Nothing

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It's a nify idea. Ban spam from 9pm to 9am. And certainly, when faced with a nearly $20,000 fine if convicted, it should make spammers think twice there.

However, why can't it be from 9am to 9pm? Cause then you can you just know that email outside of business hours (plus some) has a much higher chance of being spam.

Something hotmail did lately has _really_ helped the amount of spam I get on a daily basis. I used to get about 100+ spam messages a day. I do have exclusive on, so I just routinely scan my spam folder and empty. It's not _too_ big of a deal. Absolutely no spam enters into my inbox.

However, the spam that I am getting now (on the order of 20 messages a day) is very different. About 1/2 to 3/4 of it contains definite information targetted to me. It contains the address of my previous home that I owned. None of them actually contain the address of my current home.

This is interesting, because all title records are public. The first question I have is: why don't they have my current address? It's blatently obvious that my old place isn't owned by me in the public records. And the second question is: How did they link my hotmail address to the old address in the first place?

*sigh*

Posted by Shane on February 29, 2004 11:01 AM | Permalink