by info » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:44 pm
With the new server in place, we have enough horsepower to see more of what's going with our service. Two big problems we've identified are 1) a prolonged attack from one or more botnets that eat up a lot of connections and other resources, and 2) continued abuse by spamgourmet users writing scripts that create hundreds (or many more) spamgourmet addresses for whatever reason, in violation of the TOS. We're continuing to try and find automated solutions to these problems. If you've previously written a script like that, you may see that your account has been disabled as our tools attempt to identify abuse. Ultimately, dealing with problems like these remains the biggest technical (and labor) challenge in running the service, which is a shame.