December 05, 2004Damn SpamEvidently, someone has hijacked the jsharf.com email domain, and has been sending out email with a spoofed header, using some_garbage@jsharf.com as the return email address. Given that the sender seems to be from Russia, using a Chinese ISP, I don't think I'm going to make much headway in getting the ISP to shut them down. Hopefully, I can ride it out. Aside from the general ethical issues of sending email to people who don't want it, it's a terrible annoyance to me as well, since I'm getting all the rejections from spam-killers and bad email addresses, to the tune of several thousand a day. If anyone has any suggestions, please send them to jsharf-at-ix.netcom.com. In the meantime, if you're here out of pique from having received spam apparently from this address, my apologies, but please reserve your wrath for the cretins who actually send this stuff out. By the way, there's an easy, market-based solution to all this: charge a small amount, say, 1/10th of a cent, to send an email. I'll happily pay it, and it will make life so much harder for so many spammers. Posted by joshuasharf at December 5, 2004 02:39 PM | TrackBack |
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