This post is not going to contain any original insights into the spam problem, but I need to vent a bit. And, as the title suggests, apparently the news still hasn’t reached all the people it needs to reach, so maybe it won’t hurt to repeat it again.

So yesterday, as happens every couple of months, a spammer somewhere in Pakistan decided to randomly pick the mwolf.net domain as the fake ‘from’ address for his various unsavoury commercial offerings. Which means, of course, that I get a few hundred bounces from well-meaning but naive mailservers, configured by well-meaning but naive admins. (more…)