Hatrack River Forum: T_Smith, I Really Want to Choke You

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Posted by GreNME (Member # 3401) on :

Did you know I'm still getting those stupid e-mails from that annoying "someonelikesyou.com" crap you pulled oh-so-many months ago? I am going to try to contact their administrator in the attempt to have it stopped, but I'm getting really annoyed that I have to block all this crap.

This is just a reminder to you to NEVER use someone's domain as a spoof e-mail with a spam service like this.

I am not happy.

Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :

T-Smith Also has bad fricking breath.

Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :

And he's like the annoying kid in Matrix Reloaded.

Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :

Sorry to say it, but shit happens. Work out some filtering man.

Especially if you run the stuff; What are you using? If you are using Qmail, I'd be glad to help.

Posted by Starla* (Member # 5835) on :

How do you block that crap? I kept getting them a lot for several months. I haven't got one recently...but I'd still like to know anyway.

Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :

Why don't you just block their domain?

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

Email?

Now there's a concept.

Posted by GreNME (Member # 3401) on :

I have blocked the friggin domain about four times! I don't need help, I need their damn server to stop trying to find ways to sneak around the server. There's no "shit happens" about it, raventh. I do handle the filters, I do all the steps to block it, and the crappy site eventually circumvents it.

While placing a new block for each tactic they use may be nice, the more filters I have to use for a single mail, the more load is being put on my server that handles the mail. Since the server is not physically mine and has about twenty other clients on it as well, I'd be a pretty stupid jackass to let this slide and just block each new workaround. Playing the blocking game is swell when you're running your own box from your home, but this is not some home plaything. Thanks for the "help" offer, but no thanks.

And Starla, with a regular client-side e-mail (like an AOL account or other ISP accounts), you don't have many blocking options. I have more leeway because I am the administrator of everything having to do with GreNME. It's pretty much access to the machine that bounces the e-mail to me from the web (at least all my e-mail @grenme.com). I have a lot more options for blocking different things than a "regular" e-mail account (though many allow requests to have similar options... accounts just can't do it themselves).

[ November 09, 2003, 10:43 AM: Message edited by: GreNME ]

Posted by slacker (Member # 2559) on :

Prolonged DDOS attack against their mail servers? [Big Grin]

Have you checked out the newsgroups/forums to see if anyone else running qmail has figured out a way to block the messages? My guess is that someone else out there has taken the time to find a way to filter messages from someonelinesyou.com.

Posted by GreNME (Member # 3401) on :

Um, I can filter them very easily. For each new variation they put in the from section, I just add that to the decline list. However, as they continue to change it, I have to add new declines. Adding more work on the filter != efficient filtering.

I'm going to e-mail admin@someonelikesyou.com and ask politely for them to remove any instance of @grenme.com from their mailing list. If that doesn't work, I'll make a redirect for everything I get @someonelikesyou.com to bounce back to whomever's inbox I find is connected with administering that domain. One way or another, they'll remove this inconvenience for me.

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

I deserve a good choking for that. As I said before in the past, I am sorry for that, though I bet sorry doesn't exactly make you feel better, does it? Well, do you need anything else from me, because I admit that it's my fault you are getting those, and if I can do something, I will.

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

John, you don't need help, you need someone to remove that large stick currently residing in your rectum. [Razz]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

Well.

Just to clear it up, it isn't MY stick.

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

jamie, sometimes you just rock so hard it ain't even funny.

primal, never say "rectum" on this forum again.
NEVER.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Y'know, porce, I read that as "sometimes you so rock hard" the first time through. Glad I read it twice.