Actually, for the past few days, spam has made it past both my Internet providers spam filter and Thunderbird's junk filter to land in my Inbox. I guess it all had to go somewhere.

I'd say "temporary" confusion is very promising, for several reasons... possibly the spammers are like migrant workers, drifting through, with no orgazational structure from which to "learn" from their "experiences" - they meet a dead-end and just move on, or if there is a "central control" of some kind, for some faction of them, issuing orders, or at least a network of mutual advice/strategy or something, then you might just get on a "no call list" for being not worth the effort. The best way to leverage this, I'd imagine, is by having a unique strategy. Whatever ability to adapt they have, by whatever mechanism, would be, I'm sure, applied towards common, widespread anti-spam techniques, not local anomolies devised by one web site. Then again, maybe each spammer works out his own game plan. But I think "temporrary confusion" is probably not likely to resolve itself, unless the blood here is particularly tasty compared to easier marks.

Same here, Rich. After months of being virtually spam free. I'm betting it was someone emailing me NYE pictures from a Kodak Gallery account.

Is the spam you're getting from "etools S R L" in Romania?

It's been over 5 days, and things are looking good. A few random posts here and there by new users, but no new spam threads that I've seen. Looks promising.

Um, based on a new thread started today, it seems to be set up to be 4 posts OR 4 days, not 4 posts AND 4 days.

I validate users who are proven to not be spammers.

That explains it. Thanks.

It just occurred to me that I hadn't seen any spam in a long time.

It appears that the new system is working well.
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It feels good to be validated by someone.