I saw a piece in the RISKS digest at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.13.html#subj4 that says spam (unsolicited e-mail) has hit its 30 year anniversary. I also saw an article this morning off the MSN home page http://tech.msn.com/security/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6679669 talking about spam. With all the doom and gloom messages that spam is a major problem I have to admit that I am happily living in my protected world not having to deal with the problem for the most part. I used to get tons of spam at my Keane account until they installed a filter. I then went down from 300 or so spam messages a day to around 20. That number was much more manageable. I don't know what Advaiya, Microsoft, hotmail, gmail, or the other places where I have e-mail accounts does to stop spam but I see very few messages. Perhaps I have just gotten lucky with not having my new e-mail in an article or other place where it can be picked up on-line and added to the spammers lists?

In any case I think we can all agree that getting any kind of message whether it be for a product we don't want, a job offer from the company we swore we would never work for, or the nagging hints from our boss that we have a project due it isn't the kind of thing that we want a lot of and especially first thing in the morning when I typically find the most spam in my inbox.

Just as an aside, since I mentioned my experience with my Keane e-mail account. I have recently been told and have tested that it does not send back a message that the account has been closed so people sending to it are probably thinking that I am ignoring them. The truth is that I haven't been able to access the account since August when I left Keane. If you are trying to contact me on some matter you can contact me through my blog here and I will give you a better e-mail address to reach me at.

Read the complete post at http://www.grokdev.com/Blogs/scott/2008/05/02/EveryoneLovesToHateSpam.aspx