What's the problem with rejecting the SMTP session, with the error displaying the SMTP error code along with your phone number/error message in it?
Indeed, a lot of spam to my mail server comes from China, Korea, or India.
I see the occasional spam come from the USA, but it's a very small amount. Same with Canada.
The hostnames I often see seem to belong to residential addresses - DSL connections etc. It seems a damn botnet is responsible for sending all the "Acai berry" and Viagra/Cialis spams to my domain.
I don't shitcan the mails from "bad" countries outright, but I do increase the "weight" / probability it might be spam.
I've also whitelisted Britain, so no e-mail coming from UK IP addresses will get filtered (I am based in the UK)
Setting this up on an SMTP proxy box running ASSP took a day, and has reduced spam on my network by 90-95% - it's a no brainer, really.
It's bizzare - what if you word you've chosen is important to convey a message (or a subtle pun?)
Why don't they just put double-spaces inbetween words - you can still track people by seeing where the double-spaces appear, and the message itself isn't as distorted.
How did this idea get out of somebody's lunchtime daydream?
Yes, I don't think my workplace would be too happy if those of us in the IT department were to disrobe
The only pink I would be seeing would be in my mailbox tray
You got your iPhone back, right?
You weren't foolish at all
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