Spam is a serious problem. For example, one of the user’s of StarKeith.net shut down their email address here because they were getting so much spam. Unfortunately, the spam kept coming – filling the account past it’s quota and blocking up the mail server’s emergency queue (or “buffer”). <\/p>\n
All this happened in a relatively short amount of time. And to put it in perspective, users here have a 20 MB quota.<\/p>\n
That’s a LOT of spam.<\/p>\n
So, I’m currently experimenting with the “site-blackhole” alias – a.k.a. \/dev\/null\/. <\/p>\n
We’ll soon see how well it works out. Heh heh heh… *evil grin*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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