Re: [SLUG] spam hell

From: Larry Brown (larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 20:23:55 EST


On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 15:20, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> I have a similar situation. Every idiot west of Mars thinks it's fun to
> try to send mail to the SLUG list, whether they're s*bscr*bed or not.
> And every time they do, I get a bounce notification from NKS. And then
> there are the idiots who send spam in the name of suncoastlug.org. I get
> crap from them too. Then there are the six or so corporate domains I
> own, all of which are treated the same way by spammers, particularly
> since mine and my wife's email addresses (in one form or another) are
> all over those websites. We each get 400-800 pieces of mail a day, about
> 90% of which is spam (including bogus bounces).
>
> Oh, that's right. You wanted an actual *solution*. ;-}
>
> My email addresses are all handled by my hosting company's servers on
> the internet. So I can only process the mail when they pass it on to me.
> I have such spam handling infrastructure you wouldn't believe locally.
> But none of this helps on a bandwidth level.
>
> I've heard of something but have never done it. Seems like there are
> certain MTAs which can retrieve headers only and then make a decision on
> whether to accept or reject email based on header content. But I'm very
> fuzzy on it, since it wouldn't really help me much.
>
> And the other problem *you* have is that you don't want to miss a *real*
> bounce (you sent an email to a slightly misspelled email address, which
> bounced back). Otherwise, you could simply reject all bounces.
>
> I'll say this: NKS has the expertise to handle something like this, and
> I know they fight with it constantly. If they can't beat it, I don't
> know that you can. If you don't want to *see* the bounces, that's one
> thing. If you want to limit your bandwidth by not getting them, that's
> another. Let us know if you find a solution. The rest of the world would
> love to hear about it, too. ;-}
>
> Paul

That's kind of what I thought. Yes this traffic I'm trying to avoid
never gets past postmail as the users they are using are nonsensical and
are rejected. Yes, the world does need a solution. Can you imagine how
fast the Internet would be without them? I bet the number of spam
produced noise out there constitutes a majority of all traffic period.
OK, enough venting...

Thanks for the feed back,

Larry

By the way, I just saw Ian's message. I'll take a look at those links.
Thanks again...

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