The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Monday, January 05, 2026

A small update on my spam situation

The topic of greylisting came up on Hacker News and it reminded me—it's been eight years since I last checked my greylist daemon. Well, it still easily blocks 50% of the spam sent my way. Of the remaining spam that does get through, a majority of it is addressed towards my registrar email address. Years ago when I switched away from Network Solutions the first time, I created a new email address for Doster, but that was long before registrars even started offering redacted whois information for a price (and now it's pretty much done for free), so my registrar email address got picked up by every spammer everywhere.

But that was then, this is now, and when I switched away from Network Solutions for the second time (since they ultimately bought Dotster), I created a new email address for Porkbun. The difference is that now, such information is automatically redacted from general whois information so it shouldn't be spammed.

So it was a few days ago I finally got around to deleting my old registrar email address. And guess what? That “majority of spam” sent to my old registrar address was over 90% of the spam that got through the greylisting daemon. My email has been very quiet since.

And I also no longer have to deal with emails from Network Polutions asking why I'm no longer paying them money, and would I mind taking a survey to see how they could imprive their business. No, I'd rather not.

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