Frustrating is an understatement! I've been bowling in a league with my son since April, having never thrown a bowling ball prior. I've been rapidly improving (I thought), breaking 200 for the first time last weekend. Second game that evening, I scored an 87. I was, um, frustrated, to say the least.
I've been experimenting with a few different filtering techniques at work, trying to slow down an increasing flow of spam coming in to some of our users. I thought I had finally hit upon the perfect combination, using ORBS, Dorkslayer, and other RBL's, combined with some Exim filters I cobbled together. All was well, no spam at all, until I began getting complaints about customer emails getting bounced. We're a software company who sells personalization software, and (imagine this), more than one of our customers or potential customers are blacklisted spammers. Our sales folks were none too happy with my explanation that "targeted mailings" or "personalized marketing" are marketing-speak for spam, soooo.... I added logic to my filters to allow everything to pass through for all the sales staff addresses. Kinda hard to fight spam when your employer is trying to make spam "better".
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Frustrating is an understatement! I've been bowling in a league with my son since April, having never thrown a bowling ball prior. I've been rapidly improving (I thought), breaking 200 for the first time last weekend. Second game that evening, I scored an 87. I was, um, frustrated, to say the least.
Summer - home improvement projects, gardening, outdoor activities with my wife and kids.
Winter - model railroading, outdoor activities
I'm a TWC/Roadrunner customer, and found out two weeks ago that I can no longer send mail to AOL accounts from my server.
I've been experimenting with a few different filtering techniques at work, trying to slow down an increasing flow of spam coming in to some of our users. I thought I had finally hit upon the perfect combination, using ORBS, Dorkslayer, and other RBL's, combined with some Exim filters I cobbled together. All was well, no spam at all, until I began getting complaints about customer emails getting bounced. We're a software company who sells personalization software, and (imagine this), more than one of our customers or potential customers are blacklisted spammers. Our sales folks were none too happy with my explanation that "targeted mailings" or "personalized marketing" are marketing-speak for spam, soooo.... I added logic to my filters to allow everything to pass through for all the sales staff addresses. Kinda hard to fight spam when your employer is trying to make spam "better".
Ditto... I get all mail addressed to our 'webmaster' and 'info' addresses, and since Friday have been getting at least a dozen Klez emails a day.
Hilarious tech-support read:
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/