SpamAnti.net in December 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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End to the black list

The black list of spamming domains had lost most of its efficiency (spammers creates domains faster than we can list them, use false domain names, false adresses and enslave zombie PCs to deliver their messages). The list was no longer a priority. I decided to stop it.

However, you will still find here advice, tips, tools and news about or against SPAM.

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