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                      A small update on my spam situation
                                        
The topic of greylisting [1] came up on Hacker News [2] and it reminded me—
it's been eight years [3] since I last checked my greylist daemon [4]. Well,
it still easily blocks 50% of the spam sent my way. Of the remaining spam
that does get through, a majority of it is addressed towards my registrar
email address. Years ago when I switched away from Network Solutions the
first time [5], I created a new email address for Doster, but that was long
before registrars even started offering redacted whois information for a
price (and now it's pretty much done for free), so my registrar email address
got picked up by every spammer everywhere.

But that was then, this is now, and when I switched away from Network
Solutions for the second time [6] (since they ultimately bought Dotster), I
created a new email address for Porkbun [7]. The difference is that now, such
information is automatically redacted from general whois information so it
shouldn't be spammed.

So it was a few days ago I finally got around to deleting my old registrar
email address. And guess what? That “majority of spam” sent to my old
registrar address was over 90% of the spam that got through the greylisting
daemon. My email has been very quiet since.

And I also no longer have to deal with emails from Network Polutions asking
why I'm no longer paying them money, and would I mind taking a survey to see
how they could imprive their business. No, I'd rather not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email)
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414653
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2018/01/10.1
[4] https://github.com/spc476/x-grey
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/09/04.1
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2025/10/13.1
[7] https://porkbun.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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