On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just noticed that the spam level hitting my mail server > > has increased 4 to 4 fold overnight, most of it being dropped > > at the CONNECT stage. > > http://www.lannet.com.au/traffic/h48/index.html > > > > Has anyone else noticed similar? > > Yes, there has been a massive increase in spam in recent days but last > night it went off the richter scale. > > Particularly nasty has been the bogus postmaster messages sent as > bounces from "random four or five alpha character group" at my domain. > > There also appears to be another ugly one that contains random lines of > text picked up by a search engine (searching the victim sender's HDD?). > > For several months now I have been sending my incoming spam to ACMA, > for which I had to allow spam through (and then filter it). But I am > about to abandon this and just stop the spam altogether -- at least, as > best I can.
After John escaped the bottomless pit ... How do you "just stop spam" Everyone of my client or helo restrictions gets howls of anguish ..., broken mailers proliferate! James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
