Hello,

I have several Freemail mailboxes with Orcon. They have worked with basically no problem since around 2005. However for the last week or so, one (and one only) has been deluged with spam. Usually I get a few spam messages every week, with subjects including "rolex watches", "give her pleasure all night long" "cheap pharmacy" etc etc. However my other mailboxes are not receiving any spam at all.

I can tolerate a little bit of spam, but when it's 30 or 40 a day it gets a bit ridiculous. I talked to a guy at the Orcon helpdesk and he gave me the trainasspam e-mail address to forward them through to, which I have been doing (the guy asked whether I may have signed up for some mailing list, which I haven't), but I'm just curious as to whether anyone else with an Orcon e-mail address is receiving more spam (or more than usual) in the last week or so?

The guy at Orcon did mention that he had heard that their servers were being hit quite hard with spam recently, can anyone confirm if this is the case? It's starting to get rather annoying.