Spam Solutions
January 30th, 2004 | by mtpolitics |Listen up, ISP’s, I’m only going to ’splain this once.
If you’re blocking email addresses as a source of spam, it’s a Bad Idea™. How many spammers do you think actually put their own email addresses in there?
A better solution is to block SMTP traffic from IP blocks that you know are dynamically assigned, like AOL does, or to use something like SpamAssassin to sort messages.
The reason I say this? Two – yes two – of my personal email addresses have been hijacked by spammers, so now I’m getting a ton of return messages from non-existent mailboxes, and I’m holding my breath for the hate mail. So, a particular ISP, in its infinite wisdom, has blocked my email addresses, and I can’t communicate with certain folks with whom I need to communicate.
Just to reiterate: Some asshole spammer hijacks my address, and I get punished for it.
Thanks guys!
3 Responses to “Spam Solutions”
By Rita on Jan 30, 2004 | Reply
*frowns quizzically*
Are you sure it’s spammers and not the new MyDoom virus at work?
By mtpolitics on Jan 30, 2004 | Reply
I’m sure. Although I have had some return mail from the MyDoom virus, I’ve also had a ton of returned mail where the body of the message lets folks know that their personal parts can be larger than they are currently or that they can view a Paris Hilton video for free.
In either case, electrodes attached to their testicles is far too kind.
By Randy on Jan 30, 2004 | Reply
I feel for you buddy. Some jack@** hijacked (or spoofed) the church’s domain name and I have had to (twice now) contact AOL and ’splain to them what has happened and that the church is NOT spamming folks so they will unblock our domain.
You’d think they would realize that a church would not offer ways to increase your penis size but hey were talking about AOL here.