Most ISP’s and network providers have specific email addresses that you can report abuse to. These addresses can be looked up using a whois tool. Recently, I’ve noticed a number of those addresses that just don’t work the way they are supposed to.
Tag Archive: Spam
Mar 27 2013
Tech Tip: Don’t use qmail as a mail server
A while ago I added a new anti-spam technique to my mail server setup called “No Listing”. No listing basically means putting a high priority MX record in the DNS that always rejects mail server connections.. It seems, however, that the qmail mail server can’t cope with that. It’s not RFC compliant.
Nov 15 2012
Adding Envelope Sender in sendmail
Fair warning: This post is pretty darn technical and is of little interest to people who don’t muck around with Linux and/or mail servers. Recently I had a problem with someone on a midrange.com mailing list where they sent obvious spam. The problem was, they were a subscriber to the list and had posted before …
Jul 24 2011
DNS: Sends No Mail
I really wish there was a way to indicate, in DNS, that a domain never sends mail. That way, if a mail server recieves mail claiming to be from that domain, it can be discarded out of hand. I’ve got a bunch of domains that JUST do web serving … they never send mail. If …
Jan 05 2011
Spam Retaliation
I’ve got a slightly new policy when it comes to spam. If given the option, I’m going to change my email address in the spammers database to spam@uce.gov. So the next time the spammer tries to send ME junk, they will be reporting themselves to the Federal Trade Commission. Yeah, I know, it won’t do …
Mar 21 2010
Reporting Spam No More
I’ve decided to stop reporting spam to ISP’s. It just seems like an incredible waste of effort on my part. For YEARS now I’ve used SpamCop to report spam to ISP’s (both the mail provider and related web hosts) and have gotten very few non-automated responses.
Nov 19 2009
Report as SPAM
It’s nice that many of the major mail providers give you the ability to report a message you’ve received as spam … but some of them make it far TOO easy to report something as spam. I’ve noticed that many of the big names put the “Report as spam” button way too close to the …
Sep 10 2009
Yahoo SMTP Deferrals
As I mentioned before … even though I’m participating in Yahoo’s Email Complaint Feedback Loop, I’m still getting deferrals when trying to deliver mail to Yahoo’s mail servers. I’ve gotten a few complaints, but not nearly enough to really justify having mail delivery deferred. I think I’ve figured out a bit more about why …
Dec 14 2008
Spam Poison
I’ve never understood the rationale behind the various web scripts that claim that they are ‘poisoning’ spammers lists. They claim that, by putting a bunch of garbage email addresses on a web page and encouraging spammers to harvest the page, they are poisoning a spammers email list and thus making the list useless so …
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- 19 YearsToday is midrange.com’s 19th birthday (using the domain registration date). Next year will (obviously) be 20 years that midrange.com will have been providing free resources to the IBM i (System i, iSeries, & AS/400) community. We need something to mark the event. I’ve got some ideas … but would be interested in hearing what the […]David
- Command DefaultsThis may seem to be a no-brainer … but it’s very important to NOT change command parameter defaults on commands in the QSYS library. This is especially true if you use 3rd party software that may not expect your commands to have different defaults. Over the past few weeks I’ve been struggling to help a […]David
- Have DDS Files Finally Gone Way Of The DinosaurIf you are still cranking out the traditional physical and logical file with DDS I think it’s time to get up to speed with SQL for both creating and querying files. For a long time I held onto using DDS, but with the capabilities in SQL if you are still clinging to DDS I think […]John Andersen
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Jun 05 2010
Spam Observations
Spam
I’ve noticed an interesting trend in the comment spam I’ve been getting (luckily few of it gets through). There seems to be three basic categories …
Tags: comments, email, google apps, Spam
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