Rant ahead

[sraun]

I hate it when the spammers decide to spoof one (or more) of the e-mail addresses I'm responsible before. This week they're using the Einblatt address and one (or more) of the Liaden mailing list addresses.

grumpf, grumpf, grumpf

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's extremely annoying. One of the bits I don't miss :-).

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Grrrrr......

Bastards!

That happens every so often with the dendarii.com addresses, too.

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Grrrrr......

Bastards!

That happens every so often with the dendarii.com addresses, too.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

I personally hate - as well as the spammers - the bloody morons who allow backscattering from their mail servers. I tend to send rude emails to postmaster@domain, but funnily enough, I don't get many responses. Including from the Australian DoD, the wankers.

If you don't use them already, I can't recommend the Spamhaus Zen RBL highly enough. A very high catch rate, and no false-positives, ever. I also use Backscatterer.org (http://www.backscatterer.org/?target=usage) in "safe mode" (ie, only rejecting backscattered emails sent from "<>"), although I think their delisting policy sucks ($50 to have someone removed). Of course, whitelisting is always a possibility (and I do that with the aforementioned Australian DoD, since we send lots of mail to them, but that's the only one).

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