Avoiding spam #2
The idea I had about using hostmaster@your-name-here.example.com as your mail address is probably not such a good idea after all. Since I joked about it in August last year I've seen a small increase in spam sent to these accounts in the domains I administrate. One thing's peculiar though:
The mail server software we use at Oops gives an abuser (as defined by his/her IP address being registered by an RBL) an opertunity to send an email to blacklist-admin. This is ok I guess, if the person has been registered in one of the RBLs by mistake.
Anyway, this blacklist-admin address is available only to hosts already blacklisted. I'll emphasize that: to send mail to blacklist-admin you have to be an abuser.
Recently I've seen a lot of spam sent to blacklist-admin. Go figure.
