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#320
Casino Spam from BT Ignite
Posted by simonw on Fri 17 Apr 2009 at 21:58
Fed up with my abuse complaints being ignored, have filed a complaint with the Office of the Information Commissioner.
You see spamming lots of my work email addresses is one thing, but as soon as they start spamming my home email (which started about 3 weeks ago), they are breaking the law.
They'll talk to a bit of BT that wants to be seen to be good, and the best that is likely to happen is they'll have words with the abusive customers, and I might even get a form letter apology.
On the other hand if the email servers I manage are representative, just taking out the one type of spam from one email server will save millions of delivered spams a day. 21 days, 1 million emails a day, 1 second to hit delete, is about 7.5 months people will spend deleting these emails.
For my next trick - how to dismantle a botnet ;)
You see spamming lots of my work email addresses is one thing, but as soon as they start spamming my home email (which started about 3 weeks ago), they are breaking the law.
They'll talk to a bit of BT that wants to be seen to be good, and the best that is likely to happen is they'll have words with the abusive customers, and I might even get a form letter apology.
On the other hand if the email servers I manage are representative, just taking out the one type of spam from one email server will save millions of delivered spams a day. 21 days, 1 million emails a day, 1 second to hit delete, is about 7.5 months people will spend deleting these emails.
For my next trick - how to dismantle a botnet ;)