{"id":59,"date":"2006-03-16T22:55:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2006-03-16T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T03:55:30","slug":"from-russia-with-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/from-russia-with-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"From Russia with Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I started getting spam from Russia. But this isn&#8217;t your regular spam. This is spam returned by Russian mail transfer agents, with apologies, because it couldn&#8217;t be delivered:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/img\/20060316-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mail junk box full of Russian spams\" src=\"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/img\/20060316-spam-sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(click on picture for bigger view):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I emptied my junk box this morning. I came home at about 4 p.m. today and took this picture. There are 2.2 MB of spams here. That&#8217;s 140 messages. I don&#8217;t have the faintest idea what they&#8217;re pitching. (How do you say &#8220;herbal viagra&#8221; or &#8220;hot stock tip&#8221; in Russian?) But these are the ones that are returned by the victims&#8217; mailers. I shudder to think how many more get through on the far end, slandering my good name. (Like I know Russian! I don&#8217;t even know how to type Cyrillic letters. I was pleased that the out-of-box settings on the mac display them properly. (Consult image.))<\/p>\n<p>I tried to set up a filter that examines email and dumps anything from <em>.ru<\/em>. It didn&#8217;t work. I don&#8217;t know why not. It&#8217;s a pretty simple RE (<code>$From_header =~ \/\\.ru$\/<\/code>). Test messages are being discarded properly. Anyway, while my ISP&#8217;s tech support looks at that, I&#8217;m limited to simply making sure that anything from Russia is at least flagged as spam. But it will sure be nice when I can simply discard it instead of classifying it, downloading it, and <em>then<\/em> dumping it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago I started getting spam from Russia. But this isn&#8217;t your regular spam. This is spam returned by Russian mail transfer agents, with apologies, because it couldn&#8217;t be delivered: (click on picture for bigger view):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}