Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:57:42 09/11/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 21:52:02, margolies,marc wrote: >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. The headers are trivial to forge. They don't really get used by anything. I even get SPAM from _myself_ every now and then. > > >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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