Folks - qth.net has a difficult task avoiding server overload from the
huge flood of spam hitting them. Without a -very- strong level of front
end filtering they end up getting clogged with SPAM much as a DNS attack
does to ISPs. They are far from Paranoid. Even our local ISP that hosts
Elecraft.com company email addresses is under constant attack and an
ever increasing level of spam.
They also provide their services to all of us for FREE (or for optional
donations from their users). Its a labor of love for them and they work
very hard. In any case, I'm going to work with them to see if we can
make the anti-spam filtering a little more manageable.
Please, absolutely no more posts on this topic to the list. If you
really need to vent, email me. :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ
Elecraft List Moderator
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Guy, K2AV wrote:
W4TV wrote:
The paranoid behavior of the owners or QTH.net is making
all lists on this server practically useless. I wonder if
there are any offending words in this post?
Where I work only about 3% of the email coming in is genuine. The rest is
spam. They spend major money to belong to a large corporate group solution
that reacts real-time to changes in spam.
Not so sure that the paranoia isn't entirely justified. Nobody down in that
IT group of ours will utter a peep about how they do it. Can't expect people
to publish lists of banned words or phrases either. Of course it annoys me
no end when *my* email gets notched because of something in the text.
73, Guy.
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