Spam spam spam spam spam spam

[greatbear]

It appears one of my 'personal' emails addresses has been picked up by a spammer who is using it as a source address and firing off endless garbage while attaching other names to it. As a result, I am being inundated by repeated streams of delivery failure notices from countless mail servers due to bad addresses and spam blocking. It's worse than the spam itself. At least it's easy to create a filter for "Mail Delivery System". It's no wonder that email is falling out of favor as a preferred communications medium, especially for the youngsters out there. Hell, even at work, with it's very aggressive filtering system, it still manages to get through.

Comments

[vernnyc.livejournal.com]

I hate when that happens ... it actually is worse for me since I have a domain name.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, your domain can get blacklisted through no fault of your own.

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one on my Flist who has recently become the "sender" of spam. cjsmith also had this problem. It really really sucks. If you have control over it, the best thing you can do is shut down the mailserver for awhile.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

No server I use has been compromised. Instead, some spammer has used my particular address as a return for their garbage. Once I finally host my own domain I will have more control.