Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

The takeaway: don't pretend your appointment book can handle your email. And don't blame the Internet for all the compatibility issues. The ...

A condensed summary of the blocklist data generated from traffic hitting bsdly.net and cooperating sites. After my runbsd.info entry (pr...

Anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that Google and possibly other mail service providers are either quite ignorant of history when it com...

Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on Stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen A collection of pointers to things I have written and that I think may be of value to you too, my fellow g...

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen With the imaginary friends , also known as spamtraps , now more numerous than the inhabitants of their vir...

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured r...

© 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen So it happened again. A major mail provider proved that they do not, in fact, understand how modern emai...

© 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the w...

Image credit: the OpenSMTPD project © 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards is Op...