From: robert.mcclenon@verizon.net 
  
 On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:30:38 GMT, "Arthur L. Rubin" 
  wrote: 
  
 >Guy Macon wrote: 
 >> 
 >> Robert McClenon  says... 
 >> 
 >> >Spam is a bad thing, but fear of being spammed is silly. 
 >> >I never got more than a few spams a day, even though I 
 >> >posted to Usenet daily. 
 >> 
 >> I was getting 300 a day and over 1000 on bad days to my old 
 >> Deltanet account.  Despite a 10-20 minutes  per day spent 
 >> tweaking my filters, I was still losing some legitimate email. 
 >> 
 >> Please don't assume that just because never got more than a 
 >> few spams a day that means nobody else did. 
 > 
 >The only time I got more than 30 spams a day (before I signed 
 >up with Spamcop) is when someone with my name in their address 
 >book, and with a high-speed connection, got infected with Swen. 
 > 
 >Then I got about 10 infected messages an hour.  Now I get about 
 >45 a day caught by Spamcop, 25 reports of disinfected messages 
 >either "to" or "from" me, and 2 or 3 other spam.  I don't know 
 >how many infected messages Spamcop discards. 
 > 
 >(I also need to fix my .signature .) 
  
 Swen is a special case.  It is spam, but it isn't spam that the 
 spammer is sending you on purpose. 
  
 The most messages that I ever got in an hour was 268, but those were 
 all from one person, and so that wasn't exactly spam. 
  
      - -     Bob McClenon 
  
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