Oh damn, after over a year, 'Aleksander' the spammer from
2023-04-13My_Turn_With_Aleksandr.txt has finally read spamming 101
and removed the header I was using to filter his emails, as well as
changed the Subject and the name used in From. "Subject: Offer" and
"From: Alex <info@*" might be a filterable combination, but that
depends if they start changing like the email domains and IP
addresses do. Or maybe I've harvested enough of his IP addresses by
logging past blocked emails that I can use that as an effective IP
blacklist now?
Unfortunately I haven't got time - too busy failing to make money
as usual - so I'll just have to put up with them for now. I guess I
do sort-of see why all the big email providers set up rules that
stop email from random servers like mine getting through to people,
though I'm still the guy in the corner of the room shouting "but it
shouldn't be this way!" at the moment, and looking for more
intelligent solutions.
No time for writing more interesting phlog posts than this either
unfortunately, and I need to get onto preparing for the 3G turn-off
now pushed back to the end of October too. Not looking too hopeful
for optical ROOPHLOCHing...
Oh, one other bit of news. I replaced the noisy fan in my 22yo
laptop with a replacement bought from Aliexpress. It was a perfect
match to the original and works well - amazing that you can get a
replacement relatively cheaply as NOS (by description and
appearance, though it's possibly a very well cleaned pull) after
all these years, though I think it's almost the only part where
that's still the case. As much as I hate the Web, and indeed the
Aliexpress website, it is kinda wonderful what it allows you to buy
sometimes if you look hard enough.
