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Tue, 19 May 2009

1537 new mail messages...

Had I finally found love, or at least a truly overzealous stalker? Had one of my more contentious blog postings hit slashdot and elicited a flurry of responses from the internets?

Alas, no - a handful of e-mail addresses for one of my domains were abused as return addresses for spam originating in "SaudiNet, Saudi Telecom Company" - resulting in numerous poorly configured mail servers dutifully sending a flurry of backscatter towards my inbox. Fortunately, my spam filters caught most of it, though still allowing some 1,500 through.

Special bonus points for the likes of bmx.pvnet.cz who correctly identified the original message as spam, blocked its delivery but still felt it was appropriate to send backscatter in my direction. *sigh*

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