Giving Your Greytrapping a Helping Hand

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."

Comments

Re:Um,

[tepples]

So is spam really that large of problem in 2009?

It's Gmail's problem. The cost of filtering spam means Google has to put more ads on your messages and, if Gmail becomes unprofitable, possibly even terminate free Gmail.

Re:Um,

[noidentity]

I have gotten exactly one spam message that has made it past Gmail's spam filtering this year (2009) and it was quick and easy to delete. I don't give my e-mail address out to everyone, but I do sign up to many things with it yet still it is very rare for spam to make it to even my spam filter. So is spam really that large of problem in 2009?

I have seen exactly one malware on my machine that my virus scanner picked up and it was quick and easy to delete. I don't leave all my machine's ports open, but I do leave several vulnerable ones open yet it is still very rare for any of the malware's operation to be noticeable to me. So is malware really that large of a problem in 2009?

Re:Couldn't you just blacklist those servers?

[FooAtWFU]

This is the point where we send you Gmail invites and suddenly you've blocked Gmail.