Spam Counts for Week Ending May 20, 2007

The 30-day spam count for my GMail account continued to drop this week. It was down 16%, from 366 to 307.

I have a second GMail account that was created less than a month ago. It received 5 PayPal phishing emails, two of which made it through the GMail spam filters. The two that made it through were correctly flagged by Thunderbird 2.0 as potential scams. This email address has been used exactly two places. On Blogger, with the option to show the email address turned off. And on StumbleUpon.com, where the email address is not displayed.

Comment Spam to The OS Quest continued to grow at a large rate. It’s up to 3,073 due to 1,247 new spam comments. This is a weekly increase of 47% over the 850 spam comments received the week before. The lifetime total count climbed 68% in just a week.

Trackback spam also continues to grow at The OS Quest with nine spam trackbacks getting posted.

It’s time to do something about all the spam comments at The OS Quest so I’ll be looking into ways to curb it. At a average 178 spam comments a day it’s become a waste of resources even though Akismet catches almost all of them. Even if I ignore them and allow them to be automtatically deleted over 30 days they’ll take up space in the database which will take my backups take longer.

There were 42 spam comments to this site during the past week, bringing the total to 150.