Chris Tann's Walkabout Blog

Hi all, Sorry I was a bit slow at unscreening some comments, but I was the target of some serious mail-bombing. Well, actually, I was just collateral damage, which is somehow even more annoying.

Somewhere, a spammer decided that "christann.com" sounded like a good return address - and so they sent a gazillion spam emails, all with the reply-to field set to <random-stuff.@christann.com. That means that I was flooded with "bounce" emails, thousands and thousands per day! It wasn't too hard for me to fix, but it meant that a few of my christann.com emails (livejournal@christann.com) turned into black-holes for a while. It seems to have calmed down now, but still - darned annoying! The thing I don't get is, what the goal of the spammers is in the first place. None of the emails seemed to link back to anywhere real. I really think that it is just a couple of guys that do this for fun, and get a kick out of annoying people...

Anyway, looks like normal service is resumed, we apologise for the inconvenience!