OT: Got thousands of bouncing spam messages... kill.

Use a "munged" address on usenet. Something smart enough people can figure out but spambots can't. While usenet may not be harvested much this and many other newsgroups are frequently copied over into web "forums" that aren't real forums. There your address will be handed to the spambots on a silver platter.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.
Use another domain or send PM.

Interestingly, the harvesters seem to toss any email address with 'spam' in the name. The reply-to address I use on Usenet is an actual working email address, but I have never received a single piece of spam addressed there.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

I used to use an e-mail address that was intended to be disposable. It contained the letter sequence s-p-a-m (amongst some other stuff) and I almost never got any spam to it. I guess the spam-bot/harvesters are too smart for their own good removing the sequence in hopes of creating a valid address.

Maybe spam harvesters are all vegetarians :-)

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SCNR, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

"gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam.
Use another domain or send PM.

Been there, everyone with a private email server setup has... My fix was to forward every last one to the spammer's ISP (it was easy to trace the spammer's ISP, since the intended victim had to be given a way to get to the spammer's site).

This worked some wonders, at least it made it just as hard for the ISP as it did for me. Eventually it drys up, but why spammers

*intentionally* anger people by doing this is beyond me.

In my case, the spammer (and his ISP) were in South Korea.

Thanks, you are the first one to acknowledge this has happened not only to me (not that I look for any comfort in that, I am trying to figure out if someone is deliberately targeting me, 4 times in a year still seems a bit too much to be a coincidence).

Cannot work in this case... they have given a phone number (Russian, since some time - 1 or 2 years - I get lots of Russian langage spam, since recently also Chinese and something else, perhaps Hindu or whatever).

The sending IP addresses are varying, apparently they use multiple proxies to send (zombied PCs?), no easy way to catch him. Not that I would not love to send the 21+ megabytes of bounced spam messages I got today 10 times in his mailboxes... (especially if he has some webmail box where he cannot script purge them like I did :-).

Didi

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It used to happen to me, until I found a permanent solution. Go to [

]. buy their $2.40/Month email hosting, and follow the directions. Problem solved forever.

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Guy Macon

I also have my own domain and so I can use any snipped-for-privacy@my.domain. Normally I use a specific e-mail address for every party like mailinglists, etc. If someone mis-uses it, I blacklist it and take another.

I also have a 'catch-all' active on my domain, and I see about 500 messages a day returned from spam victims (sometimes there are storms of thousands a day) since there are some spammers using something snipped-for-privacy@my.domain as sender. I have installed filters to detect spam returns (anything from postmaster, anything with "bounced" or "returned mail" etc in the subject, etc, etc.) and now it's less than one a day.

Arie.

I just gave up and got a gmail account. Perfect.

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Dirk

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