Gary Nunn wrote:
>
> Spammers can certainly be as creative as they can be annoying.
>
> With MailWasher, I am bouncing and deleting an average of 30 messages a
> day, probably twice that on weekends. I am assuming that those weekend
> spammers have real jobs during the week. :-)
Actually, I get *less* spam on Saturdays and Sundays than during the
week. (I've been keeping a tally for over 3 months now, to check for
trends such as this one.)
Unfortunately, neither of the outgoing mail servers I use will relay
bounces back to the senders. :( So about all I can do is delete all
the friggin' stuff. But it takes a lot less time than downloading and
deleting.
> Also, I have noticed that as soon as I register a domain name, two or
> three days later I am getting spam sent to generic names at that domain
> name. I can control that somewhat by turning off the email "catch all",
> but I did get some to the administrative address, which means that they
> are harvesting email addresses from the Whois database. How annoying!
Yeah. I got a message bounced back to me by some hypervigilant
spam-blocker indicating that our domain had been used for that sort of
thing, which really pisses me off. If the spam-blocking services would
do something like "mail from domain X is invalid unless it goes through
mail server Y, in which case it's legitimate", that would be nice. If
they *are* doing that, then maybe I should contact them and see what we
can do so that *my* legit mail gets through to the people I need it to
get to, while the crap that has nothing to do with us gets killed.
Julia
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