{"id":475,"date":"2011-12-20T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/backscatter_spam_attack_from_orangefr"},"modified":"2013-11-17T06:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T06:44:46","slug":"backscatter_spam_attack_from_orangefr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2011\/12\/backscatter_spam_attack_from_orangefr.html","title":{"rendered":"Backscatter Spam Attack from orange.fr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently suffering a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29\">backscatter spam<\/a> attack, 95% of which is coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/orange.fr\">orange.fr&#8217;s misconfigured email servers<\/a>. 500 emails and counting. I&#8217;ve certainly seen worse (much worse), but not anything on this scale for many years. It feels kind of&#8230; retro.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably the reason <a href=\"http:\/\/orange.fr\">backscatter spam<\/a> has grown rarer is that these days, most mail servers are now configured properly. And yet &#8212; it seems that at end of 2011, there are still major service providers that employ systems engineers and product managers who do not understand the basic principles of mail server configuration.<\/p>\n<p>So help educate the fine people who work for orange.fr, here is an article that explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontbouncespam.org\/\">why you should never bounce spam and viruses<\/a>. And here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=fr&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dontbouncespam.org%2F\">French translation of the same article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome, orange.fr systems engineers and product managers! I&#8217;m glad we were able to have this positive cultural exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, it seems that at end of 2011, there are still major service providers that employ systems engineers and product managers who do not understand the basic principles of mail server configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}