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Proper Ways to Dispose of Spam?

Posted by Cliff on from the let's-stop-wasting-bandwidth-on-useless-bounces dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "My domain name is being stolen by spammers; they forge outgoing mail using my poor innocent domain name. First, I'd like to plead with mail server administrators out there: please REJECT spam and undeliverable mail. If you reject instead of bouncing then legitimate mail senders will still know there is a problem. Second, do you have any tips for dealing with a flood of spam bounces? Exim is pitching the bounces pretty quickly, but my server is still getting overwhelmed." In the case of stolen sender addresses, SPF attempts to address this problem but has it been effective?

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  1. Proper disposal of spam by gentimjs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Either call the EPA and get them to declare a superfund site in your compost pile, or use it as fuel in home-brew nuclear fusion experiments. The end results will likely be simmilar. I'm told its also a good substitute for bathroom grout.

  2. Easy by JamesP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Two big guys and a baseball bat

    Oh, you mean SPAM, I read that as spammer...

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  3. My way by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find that removing the spam from the can and slicing it into ~3/8" thick slices (length wise), placing the pieces in a skillet over medium heat and letting them get nice and brown is the best way to rid of spam. Spam goes great with any breakfast food (except cereal).

    I've also had the pleasure (such that it is) of dicing the spam into cubes and mixing it into a noodle casserole and baking for 45 minutes in the oven. The spam is cooked nicely and its fat oozes into the surrounding noodles and sauce.

    Oh wait, you meant email spam. Never mind.

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    1. Re:My way by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Bwahahahaha! Now that's funny. My comment gets modded as offtopic but the two following comments, also offtopic, don't get modded anything.

      Yeah, real nice mod system ya got here folks. Let's not fix the mod point system so people who have a brain can mod correctly. Let's just keep things the way they are cause, you know, like Microsft, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

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    2. Re:My way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The moderation system seems to work fine for me. Your comment wasn't funny, so someone rightfully decided it was noise.

  4. Disposing spam... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I haven't eaten it...

    [Please insert wow ur fat joke here.]

    I put the spam into the trash, tie the top of the trash bag, and throw trash bag into the dumpster outside. I don't know what the fuss is about disposing spam. Spam is spam. :P

  5. How I dispose of spam.,.. by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'll need a dog. I simply feed him my excess cans of spam. If you're dealing with spam e-mail, then simply print out the spam, and use it to paper train the dog after it's gorged on Spiced HAM.

  6. No Bounces by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Eaaasssyyy. Just set your MX record to 127.0.0.1!

    You will never get a bounce.