F*cking Spammers

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by divingniknaks

For the second time in 3 days some to**er has used our enquiries email addy as the return address on several million porn/ big willy spam messages.

You need to add a list like this to your Spam filter...

From: Mail Delivery
message could not be delivered
message was not delivered
Subject: Delivery Status
This is a permanent error
This Message was undeliverable
was blocked by our Spam Firewall
was considered unsolicited bulk e-mail
You do not have permission to post
[automated response]

That gets rid of most of the bounces.
My total spam bucket count for March was 30330 so not quite 1000 per day. About 10% make it to 'hold and look' at and about 10 get through often for being incomprehensible.

I'm am to all intents a Quaker but even I might contemplate shooting for persistent spammers.

[neilh]

Originally Posted by Air Guzzler

Phil just do what i did

Subscribe the F$*ks to a load of sites using there email address

Trouble is more often than not they send using other people's email addresses as well - so you just make the problem worse.

I get plenty of bounce messages from emails I've apparently sent

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by yazzyfooty

Shall I bother to re-send my email again Phil? Or shall I wait until you have deleted your spam then try?

What, your niknaks shiney big willy hasn't arrived either?

[CotoChris]

I thought I had it bad with some 100 spam mails a day. I use a program called clowdmark (Cloudmark: Anti-spam, Spam Filter, Anti-virus, Anti-phishing, and Spam-Blocking for Service Providers ) which takes a fair share. It has helped a lot.

I hope I don't get to your situation of 1,000 spam a day. That would fell up my server within hours.

If it is so bad you may have to change your email adress, i,e from info@ to inform@ for example. Inform your clients before hand and make adavance warning on your site.