Make it Stop!
Posted on November 23, 2003 by Christine | 16 Comments
Now the freak spammers are not only using blahblahblog.com to send out spam, but they have started using the Picture Yourself domain too. I’ve got hundreds of over FOUR THOUSAND bounce messages, which just started 3 days ago, in the inbox there. (Yes, I moved them *all* into one folder so I could “count” them.)
I think I’m going to cry.
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November 23rd, 2003 @ 12:13 pm
Is there no way to track them down via their bounced headers and report it? I would think the bounced address would contain the original header info with IPs etc.
November 23rd, 2003 @ 12:27 pm
That’s what I’m looking for right now, but for some reason it all looks like garbly-gook to me through the anger and I can’t figure out which line is the line I want to report.
Evil bastards!!!
November 23rd, 2003 @ 12:41 pm
That sucks hardcore! We’ve had that happen a couple of times with Foo and every time it pisses me off to no end!
November 23rd, 2003 @ 12:42 pm
OOOOOO~that bites!
((((hugs))))
November 23rd, 2003 @ 1:10 pm
Ouch. What a bunch of moronic a-holes!
November 23rd, 2003 @ 1:25 pm
OMG.
November 23rd, 2003 @ 5:19 pm
Gawd, that really sucks.
**hugs** I had it happen to me too but you have me beat, that’s alot of emails! 
November 23rd, 2003 @ 9:50 pm
Ooooh, they’ve gotten me before, too. Twice. And both times, I felt the exact same way you do. SO SORRY!
Leslie
November 24th, 2003 @ 6:01 am
Again, this may be prohibited under the law that went into effect on September 1. You ought to talk to someone about that. Also see here and here.
November 24th, 2003 @ 9:12 am
I’m more worried at this moment about someone coming after *me* as a spammer – the law allows for me to recover damages for spam I received, not for spam sent with my name on it. At least that’s my understanding so far.
I am investigating this further though. Thanks for the links!
November 24th, 2003 @ 9:20 am
Procmail is your friend… set up a procmail rule based on the From Postmaster or Mailer Daemon to put all bounces into a folder so your inbox doesn’t get spammed.
November 24th, 2003 @ 10:29 am
SPAM SUCKS! Sounds like they *may be using you as a relay host..are you running your own domain? If so I’d close off the relaying port.
November 24th, 2003 @ 10:41 am
Nope, they are not relaying through me (we have the ports closed), they are just spoofing my address in the mail from fields – so I get all the bounce messages.
I’m just waiting to be blacklisted for it now. *sigh*
November 24th, 2003 @ 3:06 pm
I know how you feel. I’m getting the same thing.
November 24th, 2003 @ 3:23 pm
I’m so sorry… this happened to amancay.com a while back; unfortunately all I found I could do was attempt to report them via me hosting company…
and shrug, hoping they’d move on to the next bogus mix soon!
January 26th, 2004 @ 5:30 pm
Don’t hate me, world!
It’s not my fault, I’m not a spammer!