Comments on: God dammit, I hate spammers! http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/16/god-dammit-i-hate-spammers/ WARNING: This blog contains writings known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Hale http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/16/god-dammit-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-49981 Hale Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/16/god-dammit-i-hate-spammers/#comment-49981 How do they do that, used forged from addresses that way. I had the same thing happen to me awhile back, and it was really frustrating, annoying, and totally reprehensible. I got the bounces, but how about all those people who actually got the emails from "me," but not from "me." That's even worse. Now there are folks out there who think I'm the spammer. And there ain't nothing I can do about it. How do they do that, used forged from addresses that way. I had the same thing happen to me awhile back, and it was really frustrating, annoying, and totally reprehensible. I got the bounces, but how about all those people who actually got the emails from “me,” but not from “me.” That’s even worse. Now there are folks out there who think I’m the spammer. And there ain’t nothing I can do about it.

]]> By: Adam http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/16/god-dammit-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-45364 Adam Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:09:50 +0000 http://www.thegatesofdawn.ca/wordpress/posts/2008/01/16/god-dammit-i-hate-spammers/#comment-45364 Welcome to my world. As the primary email admin for a relatively large company, this is a problem I have to cope with an an *almost* daily basis... and I say "almost" only because we employ a high-end spam filter that often can be left alone to its own devices. So yeah... I wouldn't mind a few minutes alone in a closed room with a known spammer and a stockpile of tinned meat. (Death by Spam sounds appropriate to me.) As just a bit of trivia... there's an interesting distinction between the "Spammer" - the one who orchestrates the process and the "Spammer" who actually sends the email. The latter is, funny enough, quite innocent and oblivious. (Although perhaps should also be beaten non-fatally about the head with a cooked spam for a few minutes.) I speak of all the morons out there with compromised windows boxes. Most spam these days comes from the army of "zombied" boxes which are out there - compromise machines that silently wait until they're told to send the next spam. And the programs behind it are just choosing random "From" addresses. I'm sure these low-lifes are sharing those lists so you'll continue to have the pleasure of the bounces. Imagine being the captain at the helm for *several* such domains. I filter the stuff. If the originating MTA is not ours, and it's a Non-Delivery Notification (NDN) I throw it off to a date-named folder that is rotated out of existence pretty regularly. I seldom want/need to look at it. It's the best I can do. :/ I hope that helps. And let me know if you ever attain that power. I want to *watch* (and photograph) you snapping your fingers. It'll make my job a bunch easier and FAR simpler. Welcome to my world. As the primary email admin for a relatively large company, this is a problem I have to cope with an an *almost* daily basis… and I say “almost” only because we employ a high-end spam filter that often can be left alone to its own devices.

So yeah… I wouldn’t mind a few minutes alone in a closed room with a known spammer and a stockpile of tinned meat. (Death by Spam sounds appropriate to me.)

As just a bit of trivia… there’s an interesting distinction between the “Spammer” – the one who orchestrates the process and the “Spammer” who actually sends the email. The latter is, funny enough, quite innocent and oblivious. (Although perhaps should also be beaten non-fatally about the head with a cooked spam for a few minutes.) I speak of all the morons out there with compromised windows boxes. Most spam these days comes from the army of “zombied” boxes which are out there – compromise machines that silently wait until they’re told to send the next spam. And the programs behind it are just choosing random “From” addresses. I’m sure these low-lifes are sharing those lists so you’ll continue to have the pleasure of the bounces. Imagine being the captain at the helm for *several* such domains. I filter the stuff. If the originating MTA is not ours, and it’s a Non-Delivery Notification (NDN) I throw it off to a date-named folder that is rotated out of existence pretty regularly. I seldom want/need to look at it. It’s the best I can do. :/

I hope that helps. And let me know if you ever attain that power. I want to *watch* (and photograph) you snapping your fingers. It’ll make my job a bunch easier and FAR simpler.

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