On 10/08/01 at 15:10, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> >Do you have your postmaster@ account whitelisted (or "whiteholed",
> >or white-somethinged)?
>
>
> Dammit, yes! Forgot about that one. Guess I need to drop back to
> "abuse" as my only whitehole.
I keep postmaster whiteholed because it's the one account that a mail server
is required to have, so it's the logical address for admins of blacklisted
servers to contact me at. It does make some extra work for me in tracking down
spam that I receive, mainly just confirming that the sending servers are
already blacklisted, but I still prefer to have postmaster whiteholed.
On a closely related note, I've seen a significant increase of spam addressed
to postmaster in the last couple of weeks -- I'm now receiving several per
day. How stupid does a spammer have to be to spam an account that's virtually
guaranteed to trigger an anti-spam response? Yes, I know, the intelligence of
spammers is already in question, and most of them don't actively cull their
lists, but you'd think that any halfway intelligent spamware would filter
postmaster (and abuse, etc.) addresses and not send to them.
Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/> | PGP public key available on request
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