1 Million spam emails !

[aquanuke]

Damn is this a record, domain I caught 8 weeks ago has had just shy of 1 million emails 1.6GB's worth

All of them crap.. not that I read them all mind.

 

[meinthecorner]

Previous owner wasn't Bill Gates was it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4023667.stm

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Set up an auto-responder bounce message saying that the domain is for sale - free marketing to 1 million email accounts!

Dont forget to mention Acorn Domains

We had 1 domain where we had 1,000 emails in a day and then our mailserver rolled over and died, turned off the email after that so could have been many more on the way.

 

[SFSF is verified member.]

Admin - What an idea! Fantastic!

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Admin - What an idea! Fantastic!

Thanks! - we try to never miss an opportunity to advertise a domain for sale or to promote the forum

 

[eetc]

This is a great idea for NameDrive. If you could, optionally, point mail for a parked domain to your own mailserver...

Admin, how do I point NameDrive at this thread?

Chris

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Go to "Thread Tools" and "email this page" (ed @ namedrive.com)

Or copy the thread URL into a PM

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

I hope you're joking!

Responding to spam with spam is as illegal as sending the original spam in the first place - many of the email addresses in spam headers are not "real" but are some poor bystander's address coopted by a spammer. If you send them a marketing message back, you ARE spamming and can risk having your hosting shut down, being sued, etc.

It could do a massive amount of damage to a commercial company being spamvertised in that way.

Think of it like this: just because a burglar has broken into your house, that never greenlights you to break into theirs!

 

[eetc]

As I drifted off to sleep it occurred to me that a good proportion of the mail would be spam. Clearly I didn't think this through before posting . Ed, nicely put.

Admin, thanks for replying with more characters than RTFM

Chris

 

[retired_member27]

Yes I agree, very naughty.