And another reason why my life sucks

[wiseheart]

As I got home tonight, I checked my Hotmail inbox. The one I have purely for ff.net purposes. There were 61 messages in it (no kidding). Every single bit of them was spam. Junk Mail filters are obviously breaking down or whatnot.

That is life for you, people! *shudders*

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[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

One of the popular newsmagazines here (I forget which one, unfortunately) ran a story recently which featured this frightening statistic: In January 2002, spam made up 12% of total emails sent; in March 2003, it was up to 43% of total emails sent.

Eventually someone's going to have to devise an effective way of dealing with spam, or email is going to become useless.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

So it wasn't just me. And for some reason I even get spammed in Spanish of late. No, it's not funny anymore.