It's not just comment SPAM -- email gets it in the shorts too...
I was pruning my email accounts and thought I'd post this little shot:
I clean out this little cess-pit daily. I have a "junk" domain as the top level at my ISP and then all of the "real" email accounts are set up as sub-domains and get 'filtered' out by content to their respective accounts.
The stuff left behind (14 Megabytes since last evening) doesn't match any of the filters and gets left behind and deleted each day.
The downside: legitimate email that is incorrectly addressed will fall into this cess-pit.
The workaround: if someone calls me and says that they really really
did send me an email, I can wander (a download and GREP works great!) through the cess pit and see if they mistyped your address.
The upside: I now get about 20 SPAM emails each day. This is down from the several hundred I used to get. These now go to /dev/null
Simple, cheap, effective, fun.
What's not to love!
Posted by DaveH at October 5, 2006 10:07 PM
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