[Elecraft] E-mail Warning ... [END of Thread]

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft]

Folks - qth.net has a difficult task avoiding server overload from the 
huge flood of spam hitting them. Without a -very- strong level of front 
end filtering they end up getting clogged with SPAM much as a DNS attack 
does to ISPs. They are far from Paranoid. Even our local ISP that hosts 
Elecraft.com company email addresses is under constant attack and an 
ever increasing level of spam.

They also provide their services to all of us for FREE (or for optional 
donations from their users). Its a labor of love for them and they work 
very hard. In any case, I'm going to work with them to see if we can 
make the anti-spam filtering a little more manageable.

Please, absolutely no more posts on this topic to the list. If you 
really need to vent, email me. :-)

73, Eric    WA6HHQ 
Elecraft List Moderator

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Guy, K2AV wrote:
> W4TV wrote: 
>   
>> The paranoid behavior of the owners or QTH.net is making 
>> all lists on this server practically useless.  I wonder if 
>> there are any offending words in this post?  
>
> Where I work only about 3% of the email coming in is genuine. The rest is
> spam.  They spend major money to belong to a large corporate group solution
> that reacts real-time to changes in spam. 
>
> Not so sure that the paranoia isn't entirely justified. Nobody down in that
> IT group of ours will utter a peep about how they do it. Can't expect people
> to publish lists of banned words or phrases either. Of course it annoys me
> no end when *my* email gets notched because of something in the text.
>
> 73, Guy. 
>
>