Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Someone appears to be faking a "from" address in my redbird domain on spam--I've deleted something like 150 error messages from postmasters in different places in the last half hour. As a short-term measure, I have removed the catchall address for email sent to users other than my and cattitude's known addresses here. This is annoying because it means that some of my email will bounce: I've given names like theircompanyname at redbird dot org for some mailing list signups. But I'm not in a mood to try to delete that much stuff by hand, and I really don't like the idea of trying to do it on the webmail interface while I'm traveling. (Were I not going on vacation, I might have tried handling it with Eudora filters. I may do that when I get home; I may try reenabling the catchall sooner, and see what happens. Or I may do something weird like send it to Yahoo or gmail.)

My @livejournal address should still work.

The latest spam subject line is "YOUR EMAIL HAS WON YOU AN AMERICA VISA". (I am, as it happens, an American citizen, but my ISP doesn't limit its services thus.)

Spam sender name of the day: Lynching L. Collectivized.

I've gotten two spam messages in the last day with the subject line "Doctor-approved pill will make your ... larger".

I don't *need* larger ellipses. The three-dot ellipsis is a fine size.

And if I did want them larger, I wouldn't use pills to get them there. I worry about the doctor who approved this.