From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e87c7ceb455db17c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-24 01:55:57 PST Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:58:48 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030727 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Solid facts to promote Ada References: <3f973ff2_2@news.tm.net.my> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.185.240 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.185.240 Message-ID: <3f98e8e7_2@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1066985703 219.95.185.240 (24 Oct 2003 16:55:03 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1578 Date: 2003-10-24T16:58:48+08:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > On 2003-10-23, Jeff C, wrote: > > >>Umm..Yes there is!. As a domain owner that receives (at times) 100+ >>fake bounced emails per day at times. Granted trying to mask the URL >>is probably somewhat pointless since there are many ways spammers can >>find valid domains to spoof return addresses but every little bit you >>can do to protect your domain helps. > > > Use a filter. Just look at www.freshmeat.net there are plenty. It is > very strange to have a domain, but never have anybody know of it in fear > of spammers. > > >>Notice that I started (about a month or two ago) stopped posting with >>my real email address/name. I don't like doing it and I realize that >>it is probably futile to try to stop these things, but you really >>should respect the wishes of the domain owner. > > > OK, I won't put a link to that page from my web page. However, on can > wonder why the web page exists at all if it is such a problem to share > the URL. > > I received bounced emails which I never sent. Checking the IP of the email origin, I concluded someone is trying to spam using my domain name and possibly also my smtp. That's horrible! Talking about filters, I tried many, including this one above. They are so cumbersome and sometime do not recognize friend and foe correctly. And some spammers have even invented ways to by pass filters. I received a few dozens of those with a spam filter installed. -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m