May. 13th, 2008

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Upgraded to Windows SP 3 today. None of the problems other people have noticed, but then, I'm on an Intel machine.

This morning I noticed a huge increase in backscatter spam—the spam that pretends it was sent by you so that when it bounces, it lands in your mailbox. I don't know what the deal is, whether some new botnet just kicked in, or what, but I received literally hundreds of backscatter emails today, and spent a good deal of time feeding them all to spamassassin's Bayesian filter—to no avail.

Finally, I asked on the spamassassin mailing list, and they were able to help me out.

Cut for spamassassin technical thingieness. )

And now any backscatter goes into a bounces folder and doesn't end up in Gmail, and I'm backscatter free! Yay!

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