Re: Some Personal Spam Trivia

In message <[email protected]>, Lawrence 
=?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <[email protected]> writes
>I run my own mail server for my domain. Volumes are low enough that
>running a greylist (blocking all the drive-by spammers) gets rid of
>90% of the crap.
>

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Very interesting.

I have my own domain, but don't run my own server.  Like you, I tend to 
give new non-personal contacts their own unique email address, and for 
the same reasons.

The mail server I use allows me to filter on amongst other things the 
addressee (to, cc or bcc).  I have a number of addresses that are now 
marked as delete on arrival.  These aren't strictly deleted, but end up 
in the server's waste basket, so can be examined, then properly deleted.

The volume varies from day to day, but rarely into double figures. 
Headers suggest that much of it may be coming from Russia, which I 
haven't bothered to verify.  Oddly, I rarely get any on a Friday or 
Saturday.

A while back, I started to record how many of these I was getting. 
Almost all of them went to one of two addresses, one of which is the 
address I use on Usenet, the other is either a message or an email ID (I 
forget which). The software I use by default sets this to be a character 
string @ domain name, which of course is the same format as an email 
address.

Very little spam actually gets delivered.

Adrian
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