[Proud_texan]

I just changed my email address as well but there's a good chance that even if you don't give it out that it won't find it's way into spammers lists before too long.

I keep close tabs on my mail server logs and it's amazing how many directory attacks there are; spammers using open relays to send email to a long list of names in a sheer brute force attempt to find valid addresses (an invalid address returns an error).

Even with ORDB blocking installed some still get through before they're trapped by some server code I whipped up (two wrong addresses and the IP is booted and blocked).

If your ISP or whoever runs your mail server doesn't do a fair amount of work to stop directory attacks and if you use an email name that's in an attack dictionary they're gonna find you, sooner or later.

Somewhat depressing, I know, but that's the way it is...

[aruanan]

If your ISP or whoever runs your mail server doesn't do a fair amount of work to stop directory attacks and if you use an email name that's in an attack dictionary they're gonna find you, sooner or later.

I sent the originating addresses to my school's IT people asking them to just do a university wide block, but I've gotten no response. I know that at least one university in Europe has blocked Pacific because I did a google search on that originating email address. So I wonder if there's any way the government can pass a law that permits such spammers to be shot through the lungs. That would be one way of getting them to stop.