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McGruff
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Away from home for a week and a half and what do I find in my mailbox? 748 spam emails drowning out the few dozen genuine ones

Is this a record?

Mailwasher keeps crashing every time I try to bounce them back so I'm gonna have to download them all.. 8O
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Post by infolock »

lol, speaking of which, check this out :D

http://www.onlygeeks.com/link/99


i can seriously understand where this guy is coming from hehe
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Post by m3mn0n »

I remember once burning a CD, leaving to watch tv, and coming back to find 2,500 in my inbox.

It wasn't advertising though so I don't think that counts as a record. =P

Yours mostly unique?
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Post by Nay »

I once had to change my entire e-mail since I was bored and ran this script:

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<?php
$i = 0;
while($i<10) {
mail("me@me.com", "spam by youself!", "spam spam spam!");
}
?>
Well, the increment was missing so It's an infinite loop and yeah......it goes on and on and on O_o. I stopped the script after a few seconds but I got flooded like 1000+ if I remember correctly. Not beating Sami's record :D but beating anyone's stupidity record! :lol:

-Nay
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LOL
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Post by JPlush76 »

luckily yahoo's spam filter is pretty darn good, which is what I use for my pop mail clients. I get maybe 7 a day and I've had the same email address for 7 years.

at work I get about a hundred a day, sucks usually I wind up deleting emails from my boss. lol
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Post by McGruff »

Sami wrote:I remember once burning a CD, leaving to watch tv, and coming back to find 2,500 in my inbox.

It wasn't advertising though so I don't think that counts as a record. =P

Yours mostly unique?
LOL. I thought I had it bad!

Some of them are the same again and again - the usual <span style='color:red;text-decoration:blink' title='Alert a moderator!'>grilled spam</span> sellers, investment "opportunities" and others. They've recently jumped to around 80 or so a day: time for a new email address methinks - thanks for the Yahoo tip J boy.
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