Badly targetted spam...

[denny]

Subject: Knock your girl's boots off in 60 seconds!

Nooooo!!! Why would I want to do that?!


(I'm guessing it was an advert for Viagra or something, but talk about putting off your target market) :)

Comments

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

Hmm. This morning I only have three spams awaiting my attention, but one of them has the subject lines "get it up" followed immediately by one with "lose it".

Have now added a filter rule for sender=MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com. A lot of spammers are apparently trying to send to AOL customers with randomized (that I would never use) local parts at my domain, which AOL is dutifully bouncing back to me. Gits.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been getting thousands of those... apparently AOL are considering blocking a couple of my domains, which is annoying.

Apparently this is what the SPF (http://www.infinitepenguins.net/SPF/) thing that wechsler has been crusading for lately is supposed to prevent... you add an extra DNS entry that says what servers mail from your domain is allowed to originate from. Sounds promising, if they can get hotmail et al to take it up.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

SPF is all very well if you run your own DNS/relay, but I doubt my ISP is going to do anything about it any time soon.

I've now added a rule for body="The information presently available to AOL" to handle the case where AOL refuse delivery and the open relay bounces it back to me. Grr. Why can't they even be bloody consistent about their shit spam handling policies.