Some brief notes on spam
Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 10 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.
Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
- It was probably a mistake to use a catchall account and make up addresses on the fly. Now I get spam on every address that is published! I may do something like the fellow at unstable.nl does and have a dedicated spam address that allows me to deduplicate those, but I haven't yet figured out how to do that in Claws Mail.
- I think spammers may be avoiding honeypots by preferring email addresses that are very likely to be real -- such as those on Bugzilla sites.
- I recently switched my hosting service for my brainonfire.net email address from Lavabit (horrible customer service) to Cotse (they seem like good folks), but I still receive spam at Lavabit! I think spammers are caching MX records. This could be used against them.
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