Heisenberg

Today, during a typical geeky e-mail exchange, Ranting Nerd and I switched places for moment on the quantum level. He posed to question to Zetetical and me that normally I would pose to the former two. I later answered with a response that the Nerd may have actually given me in the past.

The Problem: Applying anti-spam rules for personal (user@) and administrative (root@, webmaster@, postmaster@, etc.) e-mail that arrive in the same mailbox is a logical nightmare.

The Answer: Maintain separate mailboxes for personal e-mail versus administrative e-mail.

Why this works: There's a whole lotta spam!

Why this *really* works: On a bad spam day an individual mailbox can get flooded to the point that the piled up e-mail has a DoS effect. I.e. the spam pushes a mailbox past a disk space quota. Directing all the RFC necessitated recipients to your personal mailbox invites this to happen sooner than later. It would be teh suck if personal e-mail bounced or was hidden beneth a slew of "spoofed header" bounces to postmaster@mydomain.

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Main Entry: darky
Variant(s): or dark·ie /'där-kE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural darkies
usually offensive : a black person