AOL DDOS?

[vsp]

My current shell is simple: ten megs of quota and webspace, my custom procmail recipe humming away in the background, and I can telnet there from anywhere to check my mail.

At the moment, my procmail filters are dependent on a quirk of Netaxs's shell structure. They have not one but four accessable machines (unix1, unix2, unix3, unix5.netaxs.com) that users can telnet to, though the same user files are on all four. Same room -- four different doors leading in. Mail to username@netaxs.com or unixN.netaxs.com both get through fine no matter which machine you use.

I noticed that when I posted to USENET, my From: address always included the unixN I was posting from (which was almost always unix3). Therefore, I arranged everything so that unix3 was my spamtrap; email without the right cookies in the header (indicating a valid response to a USENET article) got filtered and filed. I also use it as my default address for website registrations and such, so that I can just scan the headers and find legit mail among the mountains of crap.

I've had my Netaxs shell for eight or nine years now, and it's starting to become overrun with spam. (My filters are down to catching around 50-70%.) Why do I keep using it? The usual reason -- I'm putting off the hassles of updating nine years of email pointers for mailing lists, web sites and whatnot.