{"id":1388,"date":"2004-11-15T12:49:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2004-11-15T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:49:27","slug":"notes-from-the-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"notes from the blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the spookiest thing about my <span class=\"caps\">DNS <\/span>adventures is that they showed me again how much spam is out there. When I slaughtered the darwinwars.com domain, I took Pair&#8217;s advice and set almost all mail there to be dropped rather than bounce. This means that requests to send an <span class=\"caps\">SMTP <\/span>packet of any sort are simply refused. You get a reply with error 553: &#8220;This server does not accept mail to that address&#8221;. So, anyone who has tried to send mail to any but a very limited and unobvious subset of the infinite possible number of addresses@darwinwars.com has been bounced every time since February.<\/p>\n\n<p>This has made my life better; but it has had no effect at all on the people who send this shit out. On Saturday morning, I reopened the catchall address on darwinwars, so I could be sure that everything important got through to the gmail account. Within 48 hours, about 500 spams had pitched up in the Gogle spam trap; another 3,400 had been caught by spamassassin on Pair.<\/p>\n\n<p>The paradoxical effect of this is that technological solutins work for the social problem &#8212; between them the two spam filters caught almost everything they should have done. But the technical problem &#8212; the immense ammount of bandwidth, processing time, and engineers&#8217; time taken up dealing with this &#8212; can only be solved by social means. Nine years for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/11\/04\/sibling_spammers_convicted\/\">Jeremy Jaynes<\/a> is only a promising start.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the spookiest thing about my <span class=\"caps\">DNS <\/span>adventures is that they showed me again how much spam is out there. When I slaughtered the darwinwars.com domain, I took Pair&#8217;s advice and set almost all mail there to be dropped rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}