[GRLUG] Email overload

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Topher wrote:
> Yes, we've had that a couple times here in the last month.  It's called a 
> Joe Job, you can read about it here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
>
> There's not much you can do about it.  During the fallout from something 
> like that, I *do* blackhole bounce reports.  It's just not worth dealing 
> with them.
>
> Topher
> Manager of Internet Services
> Cornerstone University Radio
>   

I don't know if I'd consider it a Joe Job in so much as it's a massive 
amount of backscatter. But several months back I did come to my senses 
and reconfigure our mailserver to validate email before accepting it. So 
as far as I know we're sending out basically no backscatter. Maybe the 
spammers figure that out and start really using your email as the from 
address (well, to be fair they have it set to the postmaster at our 
domain. But, I get those messages.)

At any rate, it's slowed some now but I still had 400 or more messages 
when I got in this morning.