I rarely pop in here anymore, because I'm only on this list for legacy reasons, but my past experience mirrors Laura's comment. Spammers deliberately try to DoS abuse@, stupidly spam it, and spam reporters spuriously send complaints hither and yon with no regard to who is the responsible party.
As I recall, one of the worst early offenders of this sort was one of the co-founders of MAPS, Dave Rand. When I worked at MAPS we did not directly use any of Mr. Rand's copious, verbose, and wildly-misdirected complaints, and my co-worker of the time Dan Poore, once did an eight-hour shift handling a single Dave Rand complaint to prove a point about why we didn't. It was indeed possible to work through one of Dave's complaints if one ignored ALL the other abuse on your network. Brian McNett Former Abuse Minion On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:31 AM Laura Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 13 Nov 2018, at 06:51, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [email protected] said: > > The problem is ... trying to avoid mailbombing the abuse@ address by > spammers. > > > Are spammers just stupidly sending to abuse@, deliberately trying to DoS > abuse@, or is the problem spam reporters sending to every abuse@ mailbox they > can find? (or something I haven't thought of) > > > Yes. To all of them. > > laura > > -- > Having an Email Crisis? We can help! 800 823-9674 > > Laura Atkins > Word to the Wise > [email protected] > (650) 437-0741 > > Email Delivery Blog: https://wordtothewise.com/blog > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
