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Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail serve

Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).

Thriptic 11y ago
Why the high volume?
- mattkrea 11y ago
  It seems that since the email is published (https://globe.torproject.org/ https://globe.torproject.org/) crawlers scoop these up and start hammering away. Perhaps there is noticeably higher volume because it is Tor and hacker types might find more value in it. I'm not quite sure.
Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
I had a similar experience. I was able to fairly effectively mitigate it by setting up SA, blocklists, and greylisting.
- mattkrea 11y ago
  I ended up going with DSPAM from this particularly good tutorial [0] but ended up just not wanted to deal with it anymore. Without significant tweaking it ended up putting all my legitimate mail in junk/spam folders as well so I ended up having to browse through all the garbage anyway. [0]: http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/ http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-ho...
vdaniuk 11y ago
Thank you for supporting privacy efforts.
- mattkrea 11y ago
  Thank Snowden and Appelbaum. It was because of them that I started up these relays.
driverdan 11y ago
I run four Tor relays and don't get spammed. I also obfuscate my email by formatting it in a readable, non-standard way that can't be spammed automatically without parsing (eg someone [at] example dot com).
- mattkrea 11y ago
  I actually did exactly that.
zf00002 11y ago
If the goal is just to get spam, don't do this from an IP you care about. I ran a relay for awhile and got added to blacklists, although I did only manage to find one website that blocked me purely on that basis (scn.sap.com).
joe563323 11y ago
You kind of guys are still the hope for humanity. I do not understand all the technology completely. But i get the gist for what you are doing. Than you very much.

Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).

Thriptic 11y ago

Why the high volume?

mattkrea 11y ago
It seems that since the email is published (https://globe.torproject.org/ https://globe.torproject.org/) crawlers scoop these up and start hammering away. Perhaps there is noticeably higher volume because it is Tor and hacker types might find more value in it. I'm not quite sure.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago

I had a similar experience. I was able to fairly effectively mitigate it by setting up SA, blocklists, and greylisting.

mattkrea 11y ago
I ended up going with DSPAM from this particularly good tutorial [0] but ended up just not wanted to deal with it anymore. Without significant tweaking it ended up putting all my legitimate mail in junk/spam folders as well so I ended up having to browse through all the garbage anyway. [0]: http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-hours/ http://sealedabstract.com/code/nsa-proof-your-e-mail-in-2-ho...

vdaniuk 11y ago

Thank you for supporting privacy efforts.

mattkrea 11y ago
Thank Snowden and Appelbaum. It was because of them that I started up these relays.

driverdan 11y ago

I run four Tor relays and don't get spammed. I also obfuscate my email by formatting it in a readable, non-standard way that can't be spammed automatically without parsing (eg someone [at] example dot com).

mattkrea 11y ago
I actually did exactly that.

zf00002 11y ago

If the goal is just to get spam, don't do this from an IP you care about. I ran a relay for awhile and got added to blacklists, although I did only manage to find one website that blocked me purely on that basis (scn.sap.com).

joe563323 11y ago

You kind of guys are still the hope for humanity. I do not understand all the technology completely. But i get the gist for what you are doing. Than you very much.