Mon, 20 Aug 2007

Spam Blowback

SPAMI seem to be being victimized by a new kind of SPAM - returned mail. Even though I never sent it.

It seems as though some bogus SPAMmer has been using one of my email addresses as the return path in his headers. Consequently, I am getting flooded with all the bogus flotsam and jetsam of the email system - autoreplies for vacations and boxes full, no such address messages and various other errors and administrivia. The real upshot: most of the messages contain the full text of the bounced message, so I get the SPAM, too! But my filters don't catch it, because they're configured to ignore system messages. That'll be changing.

Something's gotta give on this SPAM situation, before it makes email completely unusable.

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On 8/21/2007 16:48:38
Jdj wrote

Oh, yeah...

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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