Spam motherlode...
Apr. 19th, 2002 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSuddenly, my inbox is filling with spam from some outfit in Chile.
The good news: only 4 spams in a 24-hour period.
The bad news: the total data associated with those 4 messages is better than half a megabyte.
A quick Google search shows that this ISP is a known spam generator.
Filtering these messages to /dev/null is not a problem. But in order to filter it, I need to download it from my mail server. With DSL, a half meg of junk is not that big a deal, in the scheme of things, but I can only imagine the nightmare this would be if I were still connected to the world via copper at 1.5 kilobyte per second.
In my experience, complaining to spammers - or their ISPs - only increases the volume of spam received ("Hey, look at this... a real person at the other end of this e-mail address! Let's sell the address to everyone we know!").
It's a good thing I use procmail.
Cheers...
The good news: only 4 spams in a 24-hour period.
The bad news: the total data associated with those 4 messages is better than half a megabyte.
A quick Google search shows that this ISP is a known spam generator.
Filtering these messages to /dev/null is not a problem. But in order to filter it, I need to download it from my mail server. With DSL, a half meg of junk is not that big a deal, in the scheme of things, but I can only imagine the nightmare this would be if I were still connected to the world via copper at 1.5 kilobyte per second.
In my experience, complaining to spammers - or their ISPs - only increases the volume of spam received ("Hey, look at this... a real person at the other end of this e-mail address! Let's sell the address to everyone we know!").
It's a good thing I use procmail.
Cheers...
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Date: 2002-04-19 11:39 am (UTC)I just don't have the time to research this idea further or implement it. I think it would work great! Like a distributed ORBZ, without central management, therefore it cannot be sued, it cannot be shutdown.
ta-da :)