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spam hell

djberg96 on 2003-09-18T20:20:28

Did someone open up the spam floodgates today? I'm easily getting twice as much today as I have in a long time.

"No Such Domain" Temporarily Broken

chromatic on 2003-09-18T22:12:03

It could be a side effect of Verisign's "this domain doesn't exist, would you like to buy it?" shenanigans. It's hard to test that a domain exists when you're no longer getting useful responses. That could break quite a few spam filters.

Re:"No Such Domain" Temporarily Broken

Buck on 2003-09-18T22:19:03

ISC supposed to be working on a fix; coming out as a patch to BIND. I use djbdns, myself. YMMV.

Re:"No Such Domain" Temporarily Broken

chromatic on 2003-09-19T02:22:47

It came out a day or so ago, for all three supported versions of BIND. Someone upstream of you has to apply it and then change the configuration file to ignore the synthesized requests.

You must be getting mine!

barbie on 2003-09-19T08:44:20

Yesterday my average of around 800 mails a day, dropped to roughly 200. It has been a pain as I don't know what my MB limit is on my POP account. So I've written a bounce deletion script. Normally it gets rid of about 80% of the mail. Yesterday it tackle about 20%. For the first time in about 2 years my spam/bounce mail was less than 50% of my total mail for the day.