{"id":1418,"date":"2003-12-19T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/spam_update_is_"},"modified":"2003-12-19T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T15:36:36","slug":"spam_update_is_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Spam Update &#8211; Is there a change for the better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22, I posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2003\/10\/spam_spam_glori.html\">account<\/a> of the spam I was receiving. Today, only 58 days later, I have an update that seems to show an encouraging trend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Account Statistics<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>                10\/22\/03<br \/>\nMessages Processed   26912 <br \/>\nMessages Forwarded    2601 <br \/>\nMessages Blocked     24311<\/p>\n<p>12\/19\/03<br \/>\nMessages Processed  30772<br \/>\nMessages Forwarded   2959<br \/>\n                Messages Blocked     27819<\/p>\n<p>These reports from Spamarrest shows that in the past 58 days, I have received 3502 spam emails and have received 358 legitimate emails. <\/p>\n<p>The good news is that my spam seems to be dropping off slightly. It has fallen from a high of 100 a day to approximately 60 a day. <\/p>\n<p>The best news of all is that new correspondents seem to be better at handling the challenge-response screening required on their first email.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone else experiencing a downtrending trend in spam?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22, I posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2003\/10\/spam_spam_glori.html\">account<\/a> of the spam I was receiving. Today, only 58 days later, I have an update that seems to show an encouraging trend.\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-mS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}