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It seems that they are being blocked. I called technical support and requested that the “Case be escalated.” From my limited experience, this seems to be an AT&T issue, as I can reach my Google Voice number from a landline, and I’m not getting a fast busy, or other such errors. If this is not resolved in 24 hours, I will be filing a complaint with the FCC and MN’s Attorney General.

People are so curious nowadays… Today I’ve received one NMAP ping from Colorado State (I’m guessing since I recently downloaded NMAP) and one “Version” query from ISC.org. Or at least, I think I have. Oh well, no harm done.

Spam is fun. Watching spammers in action is even more fun. Via a friend, I have a very old domain that for which I handle mail. Since only one address is legitimate, it’s easy to use a wild card alias to catch and analyze spam. I implemented some Policies via Policyd2, aka “ClueBringer” (linux kids are cute, aren’t they?) Basically, I added a 20/hour recipient quota, and a 5/hour /24 based sender quota, hoping to bounce a few messages. It never happens. The bot network that sends these messages implements a simple, but effective interpolation scheme where the same address NEVER receives mail from the same ip address, and it always jumps /24s after 2 messages. It’s fascinating to watch.