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pickles
Joined: Jan 24, 2000
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Posted: 2005-May-12 17:09
This is the antithesis of marketing or perhaps a case of marketing gone very very very bad. Last night I received an email from a hosting provider - it was about a personal site I've let fall by the wayside.
the mail read (domain name removed just cuzz *l*):
"You have probably noticed the amount of spam email coming to your xxxxxxx.com domain. It has grown to a level of 1 million per week. This has literally brought the mail server to its knees.
To restore some sense of normalcy we have turned off all mail for the domain. All other features do continue as usual."
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Any thoughts on what one does in this circumstance? (and no, it wasn't an adult content site)
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Silv
Joined: Aug 10, 1999
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Posted: 2005-May-14 18:20
If the spam is only coming in to specific e-mail addresses, you might try asking the host if they would be willing to "black hole" that address, and turn other mail back on.
Basically this would send all mail sent to that address directly into nothing-ness, causing less of a load for the mailserver, and not taking up space.
They may or may not be willing to do this. If your address is literally getting 1 million / week of spam, I can definitely see how this might cause a problem in a shared hosting environment.
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jopros
Joined: Aug 10, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Aug-10 22:03
Try to block them out
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Aug-10 23:44
Do a Google search for that e-mail address then get it removed from every site that promotes it.
Put up one specific e-mail address that you want to use at that domain, protect the link using javascript, and BlackHole all of the rest.
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