Hello Paul,
Am 2005-07-27 10:26:38, schrieb Paul Bijnens:
As former victim of such a harvested email address being used
as sender for spam, I can only strongly affirm that the damage
is very real. I received about 2000-3000 "replies" on the first days
going from "user unknown" (usually from MS Exchange mailers) to real
insults directed to me personally (which must have been taken a
considerable amount of time of the writers too).
Even weeks after the event, I still received back scatter emails.
I am victim since around 2 years. At least one time per week
I get such DOS on my <linux4michelle> and then I get between
500 and 34.000 Messages a day. Currently I get around 14.000
per day and 95% of them on <linux4michelle>.
Because I am Debian-Consultant and working seriously, I do not
change my E-Mail each week, but SPAM is the price.
Never I have used challenge responses...
If I get such b......t I send it to /dev/null thanks procmail.
What I perceived as most damaging is that between all those "bounces"
(they do not all have the "Re:..." subject line either), there are
still some real normal messages for me, which I did not want to miss.
Yeah, I have the same problem...
On the other hand, my procmailrc skills were making great progress.
:-)
I have a blacklist of Server/E-Mails sending permanent SPAM or
AAV-Messages or Challange Reponses:
<http://michelle.konzack.home.tamay-dogan.homelinux.net/linux/tdmailblacklist/LIST_blacklist>
Greetings
Michelle
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