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Comment Re:Why is this only getting noticed now? (Score 1) 316

Why is this only getting attention now when it's been a problem for years?

As per original article, it's been getting much worse recently. On my own email, which is now pretty well spam filtered (and I kill a lot of spam because my email address has been all over the net for about 12 years) I've been getting dozens of backscatter messages a day in the last two weeks, when I used to get maybe one a month. Others (though not everybody) are seeing the same. That's newsworthy. It's helped that I found out how to get spamassassin to mark mailbounces correctly, but it doesn't spot them all and I may have to make some custom rules for some of the less usual mail agents that have different bounce message detection signatures.

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