Sun, 26 Oct 2003
I hate SMTP servers ...
I just spent three hours upgrading mailman, the mailing list
system on this here Linux box, to the latest (2.1.3) release
from the stable 2.0.x we were running, just so I could take
advantage of the improved spam trapping features it provides.
It was a royal pain in the arse and I wouldn't have bothered,
were it not for the enthusiastic but ineffectual spammers
who have bombarded the moderated charlie-pr mailing list (which gets
about one bulletin every six months) with spam in the past
week or two.
Meanwhile, a quick check on Demon Internet's servers show
something like 10,600 pieces of spam waiting for
download by antipope.demon.co.uk -- a dialup account I
stopped using for mail in 1998 (and for anything else about
two years later). And that spam-load has built up in the 28
days since I last polled Demon. That's 500 spams a day --
and I haven't had any legitimate email via that account in
the past couple of years.
It's time for a new protocol, folks. Email's dead.
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