Collateral Damage in the Spam War

MarkedMan writes "The link points to a well researched article on Spam lists and those innocently appended to them. I have seen this myself with MailWasher. A posting will come through as potential spam, with the the bounce already red-flagged, but it is actually from a legitimate source. Only happens once or twice a month but still cause for worry. " I've found that Spam Assassin has made life easier, but I still have to ban domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, mail.com - and *.ru and *.cn. I sort through the spam periodically, but the collateral damage is still there.

Solution to spam

[maynard-lag]

I've found that once I stopped checking my email, I stopped getting spam.

Now, why haven't I heard from my girlfriend while she's been away at school.

Re:Sometimes "collateral damage" is intentional

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

The company I work with is switching our hosting away from Earthlink for that reason. We send mail from our domain but its reverse lookup is earthlink.net...Some of our clients deny mail from them as they have open mail relays. Bad for us Karl

SPAM

[!splut]

Ever since my friends started filtering out spam none of my emails get through to them. Such is the life of a Hormel Foods employee...

But not everyone hates spam anyway

[PissingInTheWind]

Have a look at this:sick guy [com.com].

and maybe even sicker: taking spam as if it was legitimate and interestig: link [com.com].

And for the record, that fat-ass-online-marketer-who-loves-spam's email is [e-mail] . Make sure you make him happy and forward all kind of nice business and penile enlargement opportunities to him.

Banning .cn

[JoeBuck]

Q. How can the Chinese authorities get around the fact that the Great Firewall of China is doomed to be imperfect?

A. Get all westerners to ban .cn as spam. Then Chinese dissidents will be unable to communicate with the outside world.

Re:Solution to spam

[Lemmy Caution]

Now, why haven't I heard from my girlfriend while she's been away at school.

Since you passed up all those opportunities at penis enlargement she's been sending you, she's probably moved on to another guy.

Re:TMDA

[mjh]

Yeah, since I started using TMDA, I've had a mild case of depression. Besides mailing lists, I never really get any email. I used to be able to delude myself into thinking people liked me because I got so much email -- but it was mostly spam. So, apparently, I'm not that popular!

So be careful if you choose to use TMDA. It might impact your ego.

Re:Spam USED to bother me

[AndroidCat]

Spam used to bother me, but now all the email I get says "This is not SPAM". I mean, they wouldn't lie to me or anything would they?

Re:If only domains told the truth...

[Detritus]

The single biggest complaint has been that MTA documentation is in English (perhaps Spanish and French) and not in their native languages.

There is Sendmail documentation in English?

Re:Personal domain

[Anonymous Coward]

So your email address is "[e-mail]"? I just want to verify that the Javascript works correctly.