Flashes of Panic

Sometime this evening, some fungus somewhere sent out a wave of spam with spoofed (and random) return addresses to this domain.

I’m foolish; when I registered the domain, I kept a “catch-all” address so that any username at this domain would wind up in my mailbox. I think I’ve deleted several thousand messages in the last fifteen minutes; if you sent me email (other than to my academic address, or gmail,) this evening, count on my not having received it.

The catch-all is being turned off. I’m only accepting specific addresses now. If you don’t know one of them, take a guess; you’ll probably hit.

And I’ll reiterate something you should already know: when considering anti-spam software, ask yourself, “Does this software consider the possibility that a return address can be spoofed?” If it doesn’t, it’s bad software.

Now Playing: I Think I’m Paranoid from Version 2.0 by Garbage