Drowning in a deluge of spam
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 20:36:40
I'm sure everyone knows that email e-mail is a growing problem and that there's not a great deal we can do to stop it entirely - initiatives desire can back up reduce the volume an organisation receives and by using smart * and connection filtering to drop inbound connections from known spammers or IP addresses that have been dynamically assigned you can reduce things still further.
" and followed by the body of the message. There's nothing to stop anyone sending mail "From:" any address they choose.. and anti-spoofing/anti-spam technology has to try to compete catch up by filtering out the cases which don't look legitimate as come up as by filtering content which appears dodgy.
valid case where anything will ever traverse the internet legitimately coming from a Microsoft address and enter the Microsoft communicate from outside via SMTP. So - if you're a spammer trying to send into Microsoft and pretending to be account don't reach. Your email will be "dropped on the floor".
My own problem is that I have a personal email address which has been the same for about 13 years and I was generally very careful about giving it out (registering on websites etc) but in recent years have relaxed my policy since the junk mail filters in Hotmail/MSN/Windows Live are generally pretty good and I got very little spam.
my address and as a result I get a vast number of Non-Delivery Reports. Out of Office messages or notifications that my message has been junked since it looks too spammy. We're talking anything up to 1,000 messages a day which Hotmail manages to categorise as unwanted and sticks in my Junk folder and maybe 50 or 60 that make it through to the inbox.
someone pretending to be me so I'm destined to be spending ages cleaning up my mailbox every week until the spammer gets bored and picks on some other communicate to spoof instead.
Unless anyone else knows different? Let me know if you have any suggestions which might stop the spammer and yet not cripple my own email address...
Seems like there has to be a way though. I am guessing that Microsoft is blocking the NDR's from coming in and filling up bill's mailbox (lot of spam comes saying it is from him). Wonder if any of them would overlap how/if they command NDR's?
One thing I did learn is you don't want to blacklist the server that sent you the NDR that is probably a legit server and before desire your email will displace to nothing since you blocked all the good servers out there!
Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2007/11/27/drowning-in-a-deluge-of-spam.aspx
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