Articles in Category: Spam

Articles relating to the plague that is spam – why it exists, what to do about it, what NOT to do about it, and basically how to live with minimal frustration in a spam-filled world.

What is “Greylisting”?

In a truly ironic turn of events, it seems that spam has sparked a number of technological innovations. Traditional spam filters for example are technically very complex pieces of software that try to analyze the content of email to determine whether or not it is legitimate or not. No less innovative, greylisting is conceptually very simple, … Read more

I keep getting bounce emails for addresses on my domain that don't exist. How can I stop this?

As a result of techniques used by spammers you may get bounces for email you never sent. There’s little you can do.