Joejabbing will only stop if everyone out there starts using SPF: Sender policy Framework, and that's only likely to happen once there are easy-to-install and bugfree milters for sendmail and postfix and whatnot out there. (The sendmail milter is a headache).

Oh, and on a user-level, once you demand that your ISP's begin using the SPF on all your domains.

It should be right up there with whatever else you want from a host. Mysql, php, FTP access.... Mailboxes... Whatever you demand.

meanwhile, what sort of setup do you have? You could filter all that crap to /dev/null where it belongs.

I've started to set up filters for each of the bounceback subject lines but they're coming in from all over the world in multiple languages.

I feel persecuted!

What I'd love is to have Thunderbird or Gmail send a filter update over everytime I get one to just automate the process. Actually, its not Gmail at all, I never get spam there, just my lame ass Yahoo account (which is a premium account, which is a total and utter ripoff).

But SPF sounds like the answer to my and a whole lot of other people's spam problems. And SPF can also stand for Spam Protection Factor!

I'll forward the SPF link to my ISP and my host. Thanks!

Spam Protectin Factor - hehehe, that's good.

I have SPF on all my domains but that sendmail Milter is mocking me.

I must be really grouchy today. First I was annoyed at fenriq's use of the word "spam" in his post. Then I was annoyed at dabitch's use of the expression "joe-jobbing".

I'm going back to bed. Maybe the world will be nicer and shinier when I wake up.

So I suppose paraphrasing you as saying "bah, humbug!" wouldn't sit too well right now?