Too Much Spam
Two weeks ago, my e-mail just stopped. After a steady stream of friendly e-mails mixed in with the truckloads of spam, it just stopped.
If spam is good for anything, it helps you determine when your e-mail server is down.
After contact with my ISP and some quick tech support, it was determined that SpamAssassin had a bug and was killing all my e-mail. Well, not just mine...anyone who was using SpamAssassin on my shared server was experiencing the same problem.
So, as a safety measure, I turned it off and let the flood hit my inbox.
Since November 29th until this morning:
So, after 6 years with the same e-mail address, I'm going to terminate me@alistair.com sometime next month.
This will involve more than just turning it off, however. I'll spend the next month keeping track of mailing lists I belong to, online accounts that I'll have to update, people contacting me from other sources, etc.
I'll have to add a contact form on the Gaelic Translator and the Catname Generator (I get a lot of e-mail from those) to make it easier to direct those e-mails correctly.
I'm not sure what I am going to change the address to, but I'll use it for a few years and, more than likely, have to trash that too.
Who knows, maybe by then, me@alistair.com will have dropped off all the spam lists.
If spam is good for anything, it helps you determine when your e-mail server is down.
After contact with my ISP and some quick tech support, it was determined that SpamAssassin had a bug and was killing all my e-mail. Well, not just mine...anyone who was using SpamAssassin on my shared server was experiencing the same problem.
So, as a safety measure, I turned it off and let the flood hit my inbox.
Since November 29th until this morning:
- Spam: 535
- Non-spam: 42
So, after 6 years with the same e-mail address, I'm going to terminate me@alistair.com sometime next month.
This will involve more than just turning it off, however. I'll spend the next month keeping track of mailing lists I belong to, online accounts that I'll have to update, people contacting me from other sources, etc.
I'll have to add a contact form on the Gaelic Translator and the Catname Generator (I get a lot of e-mail from those) to make it easier to direct those e-mails correctly.
I'm not sure what I am going to change the address to, but I'll use it for a few years and, more than likely, have to trash that too.
Who knows, maybe by then, me@alistair.com will have dropped off all the spam lists.
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