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email from the lord

The only autoreply from the joe-job of mirror@ibiblio that I found entertaining.

2008 06 14 tarheelcoxn flickr
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I’m stuck and I don’t have a good way out. I’ll paint the picture for you: I’m responsible for a mail server that handles mail for about 50 domains. We get joe jobbed pretty much constantly, and recently spammers have started picking on not-so-tech-savvy individuals who do their mail with us. Eg. “Poor User”<p.user@example.net> gets [...]

2008 04 29 tarheelcoxn work/web Comments (2)

aaaarrgh

2008 04 22 tarheelcoxn flickr Comments (3)

when mail servers get angry

I had 403 messages in my inbox as of Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:23:15 -0400 (EDT). I now have 3295. /var filled up and postfix got a bit unhappy about that. I had it fixed by 22:54, so theoretically we haven’t lost any legitimate mail, but boy did the floodgates open…. h8 spammers. We got [...]

2008 04 02 tarheelcoxn ibiblio Comments Off

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