spam explosion

[gusl]

I'm hosted by buydomains.com. Since yesterday, my domain has received about 300 spam messages (most of which are bounces), up from ~ 15 / day. About 92% of them are caught by GMail's spam filter, but a lot still gets through. Is this happening to anyone else today? There's no reason why the spammers should target just my domain.

Does anyone know a way to script my server, so that only email addresses beginning with "gus" make it through? I might have to ask the folks at buydomains.com, but this sounds like it would be extra work, not included in my $16/year.

I might have to change hosts. peamasii, would this be a good time for you?

Comments

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Publish an SPF record for your domain. spf.pobox.com. It won't stop them from sending spam with your address on it, but it will make it less useful for them, and most of them will stop. That's what I did, and it's cut down the number of bogus bounces I've received considerably.