[GRLUG] Email overload

[Collin]

Collin wrote:
> 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.
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Oh... cute... Now I get it... I'm starting to get bounce messages which 
say that the user wouldn't accept email from me (though I didn't send 
it) because my email address is a known spamming address... It really is 
a joe job... Cute.... At least they had the common courtesy to use the 
postmaster address and not my real one. Are spam blockers really so 
stupid as to trust the from address or even pay any attention to it!?!