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Spam problems again. The upstream ISP has unilaterally chosen to disable my catchall address, which is very sad because I was depending on it for a lot of stuff. I can't blame them though; the servers were choking on the amount of spam I was getting, and the downstream ISP was refusing delivery of it. Nearly a hundred thousand messages, apparently, managed to stick in my upstream mail queue.
edit: I figured out why the number was so low. That's just the number that arrived between the time the upstream ISP did some server work (changing my IP address) and the time the upstream ISP noticed that there was a problem (because the downstream ISP doesn't have the new upstream IP address whitelisted). That's probably a few hours, maybe an afternoon.
Have I mentioned in the last fifteen minutes how much I loathe spammers? I have? Okay.
I am >< this close to deciding I don't need to have e-mail in my life, except as needed by my job. Thiiiiiis close. (The next person to mention gmail gets thirty lashes with a wet printout of the last ten times I explained why I'm not using gmail. Unless it would be enjoyable.)
edit: I figured out why the number was so low. That's just the number that arrived between the time the upstream ISP did some server work (changing my IP address) and the time the upstream ISP noticed that there was a problem (because the downstream ISP doesn't have the new upstream IP address whitelisted). That's probably a few hours, maybe an afternoon.
Have I mentioned in the last fifteen minutes how much I loathe spammers? I have? Okay.
I am >< this close to deciding I don't need to have e-mail in my life, except as needed by my job. Thiiiiiis close. (The next person to mention gmail gets thirty lashes with a wet printout of the last ten times I explained why I'm not using gmail. Unless it would be enjoyable.)
