Although interesting (to me) in and of itself, I’m mentioning this article because of this bit from the last paragraph:

In other developments, spammers have abandoned the use of image-based spam, file attachment spam and other such frippery by going back to basics. Nine in ten spam messages now contain little more beyond a few simple words and a URL.

I’d call that a major win for the anti-spam effort. 🙂

I’d wondered at the lack of spam recently, but I figured that SpamBayes/ThunderBayes was just doing an exceptionally good job. Which it is (when I saw the above, I checked… out of 308 spam messages in the past couple weeks, I’d only had to look at forty of them, and SpamBayes was unsure of only seventeen of those), but getting only about 22 spams a day is pretty freakin’ amazing too, considering that I’ve had these e-mail addresses for five and seven years now. (I’m not counting the GMail account or the account at the company that bought our Project Badger, since both of them have their own very effective spam-filtering stuff.) After only three years with my previous e-mail account, I was being inundated with a couple hundred spam messages a day.