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I do not see an uptick to hotmail addresses on my fake open relay honeypots. Could it be they adjusted their global filters recently or that your address ended
by LinuxBender 4y ago
I do not see an uptick to hotmail addresses on my fake open relay honeypots. Could it be they adjusted their global filters recently or that your address ended up in more spammer lists?
- wizofaus 4y agoThe emails I'm getting are so obviously spam (nonsense subjects, sender addresses and frequently no text content) that I'm baffled how they don't get filtered, let alone wind up in my "focused" inbox.
- LinuxBender 4y agoI am just guessing but it sounds like maybe they broke their global filters. I've seen folks on here saying they are seeing this behavior on gmail as well. I have not seen any evidence pointing to what the overall agenda would be if this is the case beyond pushing people off the free email services. The conspiratorial side of me could imagine a memo amongst a circle of some business leaders pushing people to mail providers that have money trails. Or perhaps a more benign reason could be these companies are no longer making enough money on their whitelists or not making enough money from tracking email behavior and are silently dropping support of the free services.
- wizofaus 4y agoI'm happy to pay for a decent junk filtering service that will work with hotmail, but I've yet to find one (I've tried a couple). BTW most of the new spam messages come from a sender with the domain achildsplacelearning.com. Not sure if this is indicative of anything much: https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/192.124.249.5 https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/192.124.249.5