OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to Snowy
Re: spam ring being pursued by FTC, FBI Thank you.
I tend to agree with UBE from this source - The Spamhaus Project - The Definition Of Spam. BTW, with help of Spamhose my mail server now rejects almost 99% of the incoming spam.
Here's couple of words about the amount of incoming spam. I had one account that was extremely spammed recently (I gave it to a person who did not listen to all precautions). Now the account is closed. But is still get 2 - 4 attempts of delivery every minute (just think about it for a sec). Account was used via mail forwarding service followed by an ISP spam filtration (that may explain why recipient still using it and did not ask to do something about it earlier). When I start to get all of that dirt stream to local SMTP server taking direct hit - I was amazed how spammed it is. Now, Spamhose (among other similar services) helps a lot to reject vast majority of the spam even before its delivery (significantly reducing bandwidth and job required by local filters). One of the lessons from this story is - mail forwarding facilitates spamming. Forwarders accept all mails coming and that gives spammers signal - send more... Try to avoid third party mail forwarding services if you don't want to get several spam mails per minute (or more).
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