<<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. So this 'ere mail
may get directly whisked into your deleted items.
Laurie
(phantom spammer)
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