From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 00:22:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E914D16A46D for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:22:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6FD13C478 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:22:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7O0MdKJ047300; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l7O0MW58047295; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:22:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070824002232.GC46832@thought.org> References: <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> <20070823195015.GA45853@thought.org> <87mywilzxt.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> <20070823231906.GA46832@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070823231906.GA46832@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:22:56 -0000 On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:19:06PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > > However the traplist activities are really about identifying spam > > sending hosts. If a machine we have not exchanged mail with in recent > > times tries to deliver mail to something bizarre like > > <3c86y7xj60op.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> (which looks like it was actually > > based on a GNUS message-ID), the message is either spam or in some > > very rare cases a bounce message triggered by an attempt to deliver > > spam. > One comment that's almost too obvious is that the spam masters keep coming up with new twists; on idea that may not be pragmatic is to stay a few steps *ahead* of their gimmicks.... gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix