SpamAnti.net in November 2006

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A mediocre solution

In front of the true SPAM flood I was receiving since the last Summer, I decided to reconfigure my email servers to reject any email not sent to a predefined address. Up to now, everything was accepted (including tons of SPAM delivered to close-to-normal addresses (sales@roumazeilles.net - sorry, I don't have a sales rep at home!) or to realistically-possible addresses (andy@roumazeilles.net, mother@roumazeilles.net).

Now there is no default rule of 'accept them all'. Emails must be sent to a set of predefined addresses.

This mere step divided by 10 the number of SPAM messages I receive. It seems to confirm that spammers do not even care if the email addresses they use are valid or not. Probably because they use more and more networks of zombie PCs (so, they don't care if their victims are overloaded or not).

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10 years already

Yes! It has already been 10 years since the inception of SpamAnti.net. It started on Compuserve then migrated to various hosting solutions. The name changed several times (from Spam Anti to Spam.Anti to SpamAnti! to SpamAnti.net), but I kept the same will to find easy practical solutions to the permanent flooding of our mail boxes and some adequate information/news.

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