Ok, so even when i bounce spam, i keep a copy of it for myself, for curiousity sake. I mean, how can i study the digital realm without paying attention to what hell people go through in dealing with nuisances? Well, today definitely irritated the hell out of me. On one of my websites, i keep a public email address for fans to contact me with more information. After i receive a valid email from them, i put them into a list of non-bouncable people so that they don’t continue to get messages saying that this email address is invalid. But, needless to say, 99% of the traffic to that email address is spam, based on web robots. Well, today, a Mr. Nick Blackman from a valid roadrunner domain in Rochester NY decided to spam bomb me (and perhaps many other netizens). Every 2-3 minutes, i received a 40KB scr virus from him, along with notices of someone named Amy’s address and forwards about a friendship screensaver. Knowing full well that he was getting a bounce for every message, i ignored him. But, after the 20th message, i decided to contact abuse@rr.com. They did nothing. After the 700th message, i actually became noticably irritated. I mean, i know how to script out my mail to /dev/null, but i know that most people don’t and i had to imagine how many people had their email systems crash due to Mr. Blackman. Needless to say, roadrunner never responded to any of my 6 messages of abuse. So, instead i just have to wish a digital curse on Nick Blackman for his irritating while loop, which is currently at the 1477th message.

But, apparently, i’m not the only one with a spam problem this week.