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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Sunday, 19 March 2006
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Confessions of a rubbish spammer
I like to think of myself as a geek. Being on the Internet full time since 1995, programming, designing, promoting, interacting. But I confess, I'm a rubbish spammer.
Mid last week I sent out 23,000 emails to a targeted list of UK schools. This was the third time I've done this. Since I'm only allowed to do it every 4 weeks according to the terms of the list's owner.
Last time, 23,000 emails blocked my mail server's pipes for a day. So, this time, I set the time to be slower, thinking that the programme I'm sending from would take its time sending them. Thus, leaving cycles for me to get other mail through.
Wrong, the mail programme sent them as fast, and they sat on my mail server, and went out from there slowly. Still, I thought, at least other mails are getting through. Wrong. My mails were getting through fine, since I'm local to my mail server, other mails weren't going anywhere.
For three days I watched 3,000 mails go out a day. Then on Saturday, the remainder went out in seemingly one go. Yay! Wrong. They'd timed out. And were bouncing back. 13,000 bounces blocked my mail server—totally!
So, which 10,000 went out, which 13,000 didn't? I dunno :-(
I'll become a better spammer through practice, I guess. Give me another 11 years.
Mid last week I sent out 23,000 emails to a targeted list of UK schools. This was the third time I've done this. Since I'm only allowed to do it every 4 weeks according to the terms of the list's owner.
Last time, 23,000 emails blocked my mail server's pipes for a day. So, this time, I set the time to be slower, thinking that the programme I'm sending from would take its time sending them. Thus, leaving cycles for me to get other mail through.
Wrong, the mail programme sent them as fast, and they sat on my mail server, and went out from there slowly. Still, I thought, at least other mails are getting through. Wrong. My mails were getting through fine, since I'm local to my mail server, other mails weren't going anywhere.
For three days I watched 3,000 mails go out a day. Then on Saturday, the remainder went out in seemingly one go. Yay! Wrong. They'd timed out. And were bouncing back. 13,000 bounces blocked my mail server—totally!
So, which 10,000 went out, which 13,000 didn't? I dunno :-(
I'll become a better spammer through practice, I guess. Give me another 11 years.
