Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:55:17 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did you guys get a spam email with subject 'Make extra income Message-ID: <20030616235516.GD45717@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <00d801c3343b$2f2bcba0$6501a8c0@bigblackhole> References: <20030616190027.5B1BF37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <00d801c3343b$2f2bcba0$6501a8c0@bigblackhole>
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:12 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children were reduced to tears as Jesse Wilson confessed to all: > Spammers never go through the effort of personally harvesting e-mail > addresses. They simply have bots crawling the web picking up e-mail > addresses off of the different websites. Not neccesarily. One way is to suck in the email addresses of ALL users on a system running majordomo if the hole hasn't been pathched. > Also, spammers never send the e-mail with a real e-mail address in the > from line either. Which is why you watch the SMTP server IPS [ since most names are forged ] > My only effective way of blocking spam is to use unique e-mail > addresses like you were doing with the freebsd@ one and then > blocking those unique ones once they start getting spam. Use a decent spam filter. I have been using the same email address since 1996 and don't have the problems that many people attribute not changing your email address regularly. I don't change my real name or phone number, so why should I change my email address if I have it under control. You are also told not to post to NG's with a real name. I've been posting since 1985 - but in those days it was a .uucp name. I do mung the reply to but not severely. > Once an address starts getting > nailed it's on spam databases everywhere and so it's done for. Common names are real spam attractants. Avoid names like Bill, Bob, Joe, etc. I remember seeing lists when people were tyring to relay that started with all common names starting with "a" at the major public sites [yahoo, aol, etc], then the next batch would be 'b' names. That will help too. Bill > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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