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Giving Your Greytrapping a Helping Hand

Posted by timothy on from the longing-for-more-actual-violence dept.

Peter N. M. Hansteen writes "Some spam houses have invested in real mail servers now, meaning that they are able to get past greylisting and even content filtering. Recently Peter Hansteen found himself resorting to active greytrapping to put some spammers in their place. The article also contains a list of spam houses' snail mail addresses in case you want to tour their sites."

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  1. Re:Um, by TheOtherChimeraTwin · · Score: 5, Funny

    how much spam does the average /.er even get per day? I have gotten exactly one spam message that has made it past Gmail's spam filtering

    Wow. I remember when the average /.er was running their own mail server. Let me tell you kids, those where the days! The world economy was strong, and I didn't have to have cat food for dinner.

  2. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    From TFA:

    Dynamic Dolphin Privacy Protect
    5023 W 120th Ave #233
    Broomfield
    null,80020

    Hey, I used to live in null! Had to leave though, there was nothing to do.

  3. Re:Couldn't you just blacklist those servers? by KiloByte · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, if you run a spam server, please mail me at aaron@angband.pl (or, if you sort it the other way, zeke@angband.pl). Don't use these addresses otherwise. Thanks.

    --
    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  4. Re:Um, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The world economy was strong, and I didn't have to have cat food for dinner."

    I miss mom's cooking too.

  5. Re:Um, by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    One would think that the scrupulous spammer would not bother spamming gmail anyways.

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