To whom it may concern....

[brooksmoses]

I was out of the house for about five hours this afternoon. In that time period, the alias that I use as my Usenet "from" address got 228 copies of the latest virus mailing. While I was pondering this, a dozen more came in.

That email alias is no longer connected to an account.

The sudden silence almost has echoes.

Comments

[cheshyre]

I know what you mean; I got several hundred overnight, plus a notice from my ISP saying I exceeded my disk allotment. [I asked their forbearance during the current virus attack.]
Really annoying.

[brooksmoses]

Quite annoying, yes. I can look at the mail server logs, so I can watch the messages come in and bounce off the "unknown address", even though I'm not actually receiving them -- and they've been doing two or three per minute all day; if anything, it's still getting worse rather than better.

I think, rather than merely forbearing while accounts get overfull, your ISP ought to be filtering these out at the mail server....