Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:55:30 09/10/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 18:43:07, Peter Fendrich wrote: >On September 10, 2003 at 11:55:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 10, 2003 at 05:28:32, Peter Fendrich wrote: >> >>>I think you all are as annoyed as I am about all this spam filling my inbox. >>>I have used 3 different email adresses over time in this forum. >>>The first email adress I used was "infected" from start. >>>The second one was used here only and was never mentioned anywhere else until I >>>begun to get spam. >>>The third one has never been used anywhere else than in this forum and now I >>>receive a considerable amount of spam. >>>It is not possible to automatically find these adresses with spider technique >>>because the forum is password protected - you have to sign up before reading it. >>>The addresses must have been catched by someone in this forum - right? >>>Maybe there is some mirror somewhere? >>>Any similar experiences? >>> >>>/Peter >> >> >>It most likely is _not_ a result of selling addresses. web crawlers exist >>that do nothing but grab email addresses. When you send an email, it goes >>thru many machines before reaching the destination. Each machine has the >>opportunity to read the headers and extract your email. >> >>Anytime you visit a web site and supply your email, you suffer the same >>risk. > >Well, part of my spam is about selling email addresses so they are traded >alright. >Anyway your "trick" with servers was new to me. I had kind of innocent view >about these servers... > >The crawling shouldn't work inside this forum at least without a membership but >I've also learned in this thread that there are archives outside the forum. > >I only supply special "spam email" addresses if required but there is another >real risk that we can't do anything about: Anyone putting your email address in >the "Tell your friend about this site - fill in his email address here"-field is >also sending you to spam hell. > >/Peter For about 3 weeks I averaged about 50,000 email messages per day. Some idiot SPAMmer found the email address "majordomo@cis.uab.edu" and chose to use that as his spoofed return address to avoid SPAM filters. Unfortunately for me, he had about 50,000 _bad_ email addresses. His SPAM bounced. Right to me. I had to learn about procmail to get that under control. :) It is a serious problem. It won't be long before we have some regulations with teeth in them that make this extremely expensive for those that get caught...
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