A spammer has started using my email address as the faked return address in a locust-storm of spam. There are three consequences that might affect you:
If you receive spam apparently from me, it’s a frame-up. I only send one mass mailing (my newsletter) and it’s strictly opt-in.
I’m receiving hundreds of bounce messages a day now, as ISP spam filters detect the spam and tell me that “my” message will not be allowed through. I actually appreciate this and wish that all the faked messages could be detected and blocked. But the bounce messages are so numerous that I have to filter them to the trash in order to save a remnant of my workday. I realize that one in a thousand of them is telling me that one of my legitimate emails didn’t go through. I’m sorry to lose that information, which would allow me to re-send the message, but I don’t see that I have any choice. If I owe you an email, this is now one more reason why my response might be delayed or destroyed.
Your ISP might have added my email address to a blacklist. If you have reason to think that I’m sending you personal (legit, direct, non-spam) emails that you’re not receiving, then check with your ISP to see whether I’ve been blacklisted and ask it to whitelist me.
Items #2 and #3 are serious inconveniences for both of us. I’d much rather have legit mail go through than to block illegit mail, if I had to choose, and therefore find these consequences more harmful than spam itself.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/15/2007 03:31:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
