Author: margolies,marc
Date: 18:52:02 09/10/03
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did you view the headers of any otf this garbage to find the IP address of his server? I am sure you can do something about this. On September 10, 2003 at 19:55:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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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