Seethe
Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 8:42 pmSome semi-sentient life form evolved from dick cheese has sent so much spam from my address that not only is my mailbox overflowing with automatic “not here”, undeliverable” and “fuck off” replies to all the spam, but my real mail can’t get through.
I will get you in the next life, you anal polyp.
This fulmination doesn’t help in any practical way, of course. But it is much faster than meditating and frankly more effective at restoring equilibrium.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Nuts. Do you ever wonder what Spam would be called if it was not for Monty Python?
August 14th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Get a gmail address and do your personal correspondence through that. Leave a kjbishop.com address for fans and professional correspondences. (publishers? journalists?) Use it like letterhead- for things done in your professional capacity, rather than for personal things. Probably the gmail address should be for where they blend together.
Your site comes up in search engines for various things, so ah, unlinkifying your mailto addres, changing it to something else, and writing it out as kirsten at kjbisop dot net or some such will mostly sort out the villainy. Also, spam assassin isn’t horrible.
in any case, you should consider the existing address a lost cause and notify anyone who matters to use either somethingelse at kjbishop or whatever at gmail, depending. After a week or two, just send everything that hits it to /dev/null
I worked as an ISP for a number of years, and, err, well, that’s about the best that can be done.
also http://www.spampoison.com/
it won’t solve anything, but it will give them back some of the hassle they’ve given you.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:19 am
also robots.txt excluding your contacts page from well behaved robots. http://www.robotstxt.org/ has more info.
August 14th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Al - Dark matter?
Dave - I actually do have a gmail address, it’s just that I read the kjbishop.net one through gmail, and my gmail quota ran over. My mail is really anything at all at kjbishop net - and they spammed from the whole domain. I might unlink the address on my page, though - or get Stu to, since he keeps the non-blog pages. And thanks for the spampoison, that’s great!
August 14th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I had a setup similar to that, at one time. I eventually dev/nulled most addresses except the RFC addresses and one contact address that I rarely gave out. I got spam on the RFC addresses, but not the other.