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Image spams laden the servers
Filed in archive Spam News by Ivy on January 18, 2007
Image spams laden the servers
Although image spam is kind of a genius spam answer to evolved text spam filters, image spams are becoming more incomprehensible by the day. But, e-mail servers are suffering nonetheless, because image spams are a lot 'heavier' than normal e-mails or regular spams.

Internet News writes:
"E-mail isn't the biggest bandwidth hog, but it is a CPU and MTA [Message Transfer Agent] hog," he said. He's talked to clients that had to turn off mail queuing to allow the backlog to be processed, and as soon as they opened up the mail servers, they got overwhelmed again."

So, although I think image spam is a rather futile spammer way to get someone buy something, it seems that spam images are hurting us all.

Which reminds me: I've had quite a few e-mails undelivered over the past days, Google(TM) Groups are dispatching notification e-mails as they wish, sometimes sending one message over and over again, while some are never to be seen. I just hate it when spam gets in the way, don't you? Check out our Fight! Section to see how you can get even.

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