So today I was reading through my comments to approve and disapprove suggestions / comments on blogs. I usually get about 30 to 40 spam comments a week that I have to manually delete. This time I got a funny spam comment that I thought deserves its own blog (no I didn’t approve it, rather, I promoted it!). Just to be an “ass”, I thought I would also post this user’s IP address and email publically. You may feel free to spam him 
So here is the comment to a blog “Google features and what I utilize from Google“,
User: Afforsenerede
email: aninuebit@gmail.com
ip: 209.239.112.48
submitted on 2009/04/19 at 11:20am:
“Yooo..
I kno it has nothing to do with what you wrote, but have you ever heard of http://www.bluestickers.info/ringtones.php . They seems to promise free ringtones
PS. Dont be an ass, this is NOT spam 
”
Why did I post this although it only deserved a deletion? It is quite simple, I get enough spam email a day to know that when I post my email on a public site that is quite popular, I will get more spam to that address. My goal is to get this spammer a lot more spam to hopefully overwhelm him to where he has to increase his spam filter and possibly start flagging legitimate email as spam.
To get around spam, I implement a system to where my emails are filtered at the address level then forwarded on through more filters on other servers before being forwarded to a central email address that I have set up. My central email address is not filtered because I rely on email to be filtered before it gets to my central email account. This way if I notice a high volume of spam, I can simply increase the filtering on public addresses and start deleting legitimate email without too much worry. People who know me probably know one of my lightly filtered addresses and can send the same email to multiple addresses to ensure delivery.
If the above confuses you, I simply have a bunch of public email addresses that I filter then forward to an unfiltered address that I look at email from. Spam doesn’t bother me much anymore, especially since I use a text email client that doesn’t show pictures and makes deleting a message as easy as the “d” key (this is called pine). Deleting 100 spam messages takes me about 1 minute now compared to about 5 minutes with a web based client like gmail or yahoo mail or hotmail.
Pine is a great program and all of my hosting clients may use pine on my server through ssh, I have compiled pine with password file support (.pinepass). Pine is a bit tricky to set up, but I posted a little bit about the process on adminreference.
Finally, I would like to thank this spammer that goes by the name: Afforsenerede for getting me on this topic. I will have a reply out to you soon I also intentionally removed the link to that info site just to be a bastard 
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Tags: email, pine, smart, spam
Posted in Hosting / Server Administration, Technology
I hate spammers.