Stock spams on the rise

[pne]

This is where "catch-all" email addresses are bad, since the recent spate of stock spams has been dictionary attacks, all of which succeed. Bleah. But I've been too lazy to setup a whitelist since then I'd have to add an address each time I make up a new one.

Things have abated a bit, though, now that I trash mail with certain subjects.

Comments

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

...I can only imagine how many spam that would be.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Too many. Way too many.

I'd been deleting them by hand, but after about ten days of that, I got fed up and decided to do at least a bit of server-side filtering.

Though now it seems that the SpamAssassin setup is catching them as well, or at least some of them... they could've started doing that earlier, though.

Gmail doesn't recognise them as spam, either, no matter how many of them I "Report as Spam".

[-korpsy-.livejournal.com]

I kind of found your journal by accident. I read some of it (sorry?). It's nice to know there is at least one person in lj land that's interesting.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I read some of it (sorry?).

Be my guest.

It's nice to know there is at least one person in lj land that's interesting.

Thanks. Though with over a million users, you'll find all kinds here. The hard part is actually finding them, I guess.