aq.org email flaky
aq.org is the current target of a huge storm of backscatter spam (i.e., bounces of spam allegedly, but not actually, sent from aq.org), which is bringing the email system to its knees. I've already had to reboot the machine once and do a lot of work diagnosing things. Unfortunately, I’m going to be away from a keyboard for a few hours, and it's possible that the machine (or email on the machine) may go down in the interim.
I’ll do my best to take care of things when I get back home. It’s possible, I’m afraid, that the quickest route to getting it up and running reliably long-term may be to reinstall it on new hardware, so I may be up all night tonight. :-/ Hope not.
[EDIT: After the reboot and a lot of manual unclogging of the tubes, aq.org seems to be doing OK. I still need to prioritize upgrading it.]
I’ll do my best to take care of things when I get back home. It’s possible, I’m afraid, that the quickest route to getting it up and running reliably long-term may be to reinstall it on new hardware, so I may be up all night tonight. :-/ Hope not.
[EDIT: After the reboot and a lot of manual unclogging of the tubes, aq.org seems to be doing OK. I still need to prioritize upgrading it.]
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On a global level, the more sites have spam-blocking software that drops connections even before the spam is accepted, the fewer of these bogus bounces there will be. (And the more legitimate messages will be incorrectly dropped as spam — we have a few people at work who regularly lose important non-spam mail because our spam software refuses it.)
Also, if Internet email were completely replaced with a system that required that senders be authenticated and/or which were structured such that sending a message was considerably more expensive for the sender than the recipient, that would help.
But there’s nothing you or I as innocent bystanders can do about the bogus bounces, other than maybe figure out automated ways to discard them.
On the bright side, I think I’ve only gotten about three of these bounce-storms ever, and all three times they were really big in the first few hours, but things settled down by the next day. (I’m still seeing a few trickle in from last night, but the overwhelming bulk of them came in within the first few hours.)
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