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On the last day of the week-long spam count, the spammers have really surpassed themselves. I had been expecting about 800 messages, taking the total to just less than 5,000 for the week, but at 1,526, they’ve sent roughly the same in one day as they did in the whole of the first three days of the week combined, and the total for the week is a truly impressive 5,671 messages. No wonder my hosting company is always trying to get me to pay more for the excessive use of bandwidth.

Once again, the general theme of this last batch of messages has been buying Macromedia and Microsoft software at knockdown prices. What they think I’d do with a copy of Windows XP Datacenter Edition, though, I really don’t know.

On the whole, it’s a massive increase from last year - almost 14 times as much, and almost 24 times as much as the first time I did this in 2002, when I got only 241 spams in the week and thought that was pretty bad.

To make matters worse, this blog has been under serious attack today by the comment spammers. In spite of the measures I’ve put in place to stop them (or at least slow them down) I have had to relate 16 growth hormone-related comments since this morning, and have temporarily disabled comment posting for the rest of the day.

I was surprised that Sunday was by far the busiest day for spamming. I guess it’s the spammers’ day off work, so they get to run their automated mail bots to send things out.

I hope that by the time I repeat this experiment next year things will be considerably better. Surely spam has reached its peak.

Hasn’t it?

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