Last week I finally tired of the 2000+ spams a day that were coming into darwinwars.com. My lovely little Python script showed that about 75-80% of them were dictionary attacks so I fixed things so that all mail was refused (not even bounced) to all but six addresses in that domain. Four were accounts I use for shopping or interacting with people who write through the blog. They get forwarded to me properly. Two were old personal accounts, now spam-swamped. They get bounced with a message to try an address at thewormbook.com instead, on the off-chance that they are legitimate.<\/p>\n\n
The result has been that my spam went down to about three messages per day. Shutting off “sales”, “info”, and “extension” at thewormbook.com killed off most of those. Now I can proudly announce that in the last four days SpamAssassin has caught only two spams. Both were sent to the address I have been using to sign blog comments with. I thought MT made this difficult to harvest, but it’s clearly worth somebody’s trouble, since both were 419 scams, from purported European banks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week I finally tired of the 2000+ spams a day that were coming into darwinwars.com. My lovely little Python script showed that about 75-80% of them were dictionary attacks so I fixed things so that all mail was refused … Continue reading