Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

WordPress, web development, and world domination.

Joe Job

Some spammer out there is doing a joe job on my domain, and I’ve been getting a steady trickle of email bounces from servers at AOL and Yahoo. If somebody out there who has more time than I do wants to examine the bounces to try to figure out where complaints should be directed, I’ll keep a live archive online for your analysis. Currently, there are about 50 bounces in there.

I did scan over a few ot them, but I couldn’t determine any kind of pattern that would help me pinpoint the real origin. I’m guessing that the spammer is taking advantage of multiple open proxies. There were a couple of consecutive ones that seemed to originate from a broadband connection in Tennessee, but the rest of the ones I examined seemed to be all over the map: California, Netherlands, France, Russia, etc. I’m guessing that these are actually being generated by at least two different spammers.

About Dougal Campbell

Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.
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