Colin Cogle 🔵Part of the problem with running your own #selfhosted #email server is dealing with spam. I use RBLs and whatnot, but when something gets by, part of the fun is using #Postfix to get creative with the #SMTP transactions. #unexpectedbeatles
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound@colincogle
If it wasn't for the risk of false positives and the cost, it'd be tempting to feed the spam to an LLM with a suitably hostile prompt and see how long it could keep them talking.
If it wasn't for the risk of false positives and the cost, it'd be tempting to feed the spam to an LLM with a suitably hostile prompt and see how long it could keep them talking.
@colincogle (also always fun to see a .name domain in the wild - I co-founded the company that launched them; we actually started as a webmail service, so I had many "fun" moments fighting spam back then)
@vidar Hey, cool! It’s always an adventure to see what sites still think email addresses end in three characters.
@colincogle Yikes. Yeah, we had some "interesting" exchanges with people back then as we were politely pointing this out to people. But back then it was only us, .info, .aero and a couple more (though the other in the first round were also hit by people who used an exhaustive list of 3-letter TLDs) - you'd think people would've learned by now...