Cheeky spam buggers

[onecrane]

I got slammed this morning with about 15 spam messages sitting in my gmail inbox. That never happens. What troubles me is that they were all there as automatic replies from spam bots and daemons asking for confirmation of sending or the like. Basically, it looks like somebody is making it out to look like I'm sending out spam like crazy. It

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[soothethemuse]

*nod*

This happens with our work e-mail from time to time because of the two websites we have here. It seems the bots find the domains and go to town.

Woot.

*sigh*

[onecrane]

Bastards. I turned off the default address forwarding and suddenly the spam stopped. If there's any justice in the universe, some day I'll get some alone time with whoever jacked my domain.

[soothethemuse]

*nod* it's a bitch when it happens.

[skywind8]

That seems to have been the solution for me as well, when my address appeared to be the origin of a bunch, a while back. I couldn't find any better solution.

And by the way: Hi from a new friend. :)