Tuesday, February 08, 2005
I am getting joe-jobbed like crazy lately. I think I had something like 1500 bounces on Sunday alone from spammers using made-up addresses at ketan.org as the From addresses. I am sadly becoming one of those people for whom email is an increasingly impractical medium. Plain old spam sent to me is easy to handle; it's the misdirected bounces that are really getting me. The ones that really make me mad are the snarky "your message was flagged as spam." Somehow it never occurred to these sysadmins that spammers don't use their real email addresses. Almost as bad are the challenge/response systems that automatically reply and ask that you click on a link to prove that you're real. Note to world: automatically replying to emails is bad, no matter how good the reasons may seem.