Heidi and I went camping to celebrate the 4th in good ole American style. We had a good time, explored our inner (safety-conscious) pyro, and ate many smores. Well, I came home and found I had 9500+ messages waiting in my inbox for ONE account. It’s the account that catches all the email at sujal.net that isn’t to my real account or to another configured inbox.
Something like 8900 of those messages were spam. I got annoyed finally and decided that it’s time to put on the brakes hard. You may see bounces if you weren’t sending mail to my real account. This is mostly aimed at people either using some of the free software I’ve written (and given a specific email address for) or if you’ve sold me a product (some of you read this blog, I know, so just FYI). I wrote a little script that snarfed out all the mail sent to me that isn’t spam to get a list of “real” aliases, but it’s probably not perfect.
Grrr… I hate stupid fucking spammers.
July 5th, 2004 at 5:28 pm
Dude, pair makes it so easy to setup real aliases, and they can turn off your default account catch-all account if you want. I maintain a few easy-to-remember aliases, like lists, spam, ebay, etc, and the rest goes to mailinator. Go mailinator.
July 5th, 2004 at 7:56 pm
Yeah, I know all that… the point was that up until about a month ago, it didn’t matter. I got a few hundred spam messages a day and it all got filtered before I had to deal with it… suddenly that went to 4-5K a day and that was insane. Mail.app couldn’t even check mail anymore without choking for minutes at a time.
July 5th, 2004 at 9:56 pm
oh mail, schmail! SUJAL WENT CAMPING!!!!! It was fun! He was excited to be in our little fort (a.k.a. tent). He camp cooked and camp cleaned. He nursed me when I nearly cut off my thumb. He’s not only great in the great indoors, but also the great outdoors. He’s SO versatile!
July 6th, 2004 at 12:39 am
I feel like some “as seen on TV” product…
July 6th, 2004 at 10:38 am
It rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over the neighbor’s dog….
July 6th, 2004 at 11:46 pm
Well… technically speaking, I did “buy” you on a sort of TV…
August 18th, 2004 at 1:15 am
Watch out for unknown modifiers