Where is everyone?

[Cranky]

Where is everyone? Nobody seems to be posting! :?

 

[mark]

All away for Xmas and New Year?

 

[Cranky]

Hmm ... perhaps ... I'm not what you'd call a regular visitor to these boards but they look pretty dead to me!:|

 

[Forum4Hosts-Jo]

Well i for one have been in Spain and have come back to a couple of moaning customers and lots of orders, so ive been a bit busy!

 

[Andrew]

I also have been away - similar to jo ive got snowed under by e-mails :S

Im impressed that only 4 were spam though... *touches wood*

 

[Cranky]

Do you get much spam these days? I only get 1-2 a month since upgrading to Plesk 5 - not sure if it's a very effective SPAM filter or they've given up!

 

[mark]

You lucky sods all going away on holiday!! I normally go to the Canary Islands for New Year, but couldn't this year as stupidly i was the last one to try to book a holiday and the other guys had all beaten me to it
Still..... it was nice and quiet.

Re: Spam, has anyone ever managed to get SpamAssassin working on Win2k?

 

[Andrew]

We have managed to avert spam on the whole *touches wood again* - the robots.txt manages to keep out most of the crawlers.

The only domain that gets *alot* of spam is agcc.net - as there was an owner before us who seems to have signed up to numerous mailing lists, luckily they all come through unused accounts (like paul@ or linda@ and so on) so we have simply told the mail server to bounce any e-mail comming in from those aliases.

One thing i will say is that we have started getting spam from our WhoIs e-mail account (domains@agcc,net), which means crawlers going though whois entry's are starting to increase - hopefully the new ICANN rules will put a stop to that though.

 

[mark]

We've got the same problem with idiots owning domains before us (primarily webhosts.co.uk)..... there are even people that still use it.. <a href='http://www.webhostsuk.com/contactUs.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.webhostsuk.com/contactUs.htm</a> - odd. I can't see that those guys do much business LOL.

We also use a bit of JS to stop trawlers getting addresses from our pages.... eg....

[code:1]<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

<!-- We Can't Stand Spam!!



function supportaddress(){

var a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i

a='<a href="mai'

b='support'

c='">'

a+='lto:'

b+='@'

e='</a>'

f=''

b+='secura'

g='<img src="'

b+='hosting.com'

h=''

i='" alt="Support" border="0">'



if (f) d=f

else if (h) d=g+h+i

else d=b



document.write(a+b+c+d+e)

}

</SCRIPT>

[/code:1]
....seems to do the trick.

 

[mark]

.....plus we "blast" those that do manage to get through, which appears to put quite a few of them off :wink:

 

[Andrew]

I might try that JS if you dont mind

can you define blasting please

Biggest spammer is wizsystems.com - get a ton from them every week

 

[mark]

I might try that JS if you dont mind

Yeah no worries. It works a treat.

can you define blasting please

Blasting = When you find out who the perpetrators are you send them a very large amount of emails with large attachments which gives them a big disincentive to repeat their excercise.

Biggest spammer is wizsystems.com - get a ton from them every week

Yeah they are swines those people.