<<Robert Treharne Jones wrote:
Anyone else being spammed endlessly since the Christmas break? The
bastards have hit upon a way of using randomly generated innocuous
subject headers, with initial text messages full of other randomly
generated words, so using the tried and trusted 'penis, Nigeria,
animal, mortgage' routine to bar the traffic doesn't work.>>
Yes. I'm getting spammed to death, despite using cloudnet antispam
software. There are embarassing questions being asked on their forum
about the rapid increase in the rate of spams received, which some
people have noticed starting immediately after registering with
cloudnet. Cloudnet are of course identifying all these spammers,
making them look very efficient, but also in the light of these
discussion, rather suspect too. In fairness it may be that this new
spam filter avoidance trick is taking its toll across the board.
To add insult to injury I found that after sending myself an email
from my NHSnet email address to home I got flagged by cloudnet with
wtteo "The spamnet community have identified this mail as being sent
from a recognised spammer - are you sure you want to receive it"! I've
never spammed anyone to my knowlegde (well... apart from the odd
opportunistic post on GP-UK, and that is usually with my home SMTP
email address). Apparently it takes just one person to block an email,
deliberately or in error and if that person has a "high trust status"
the whole community is alerted.
Laurie
(phantom spammer)
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