From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 12:06:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAB137B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B86B43FB1 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h3FJ6DV21120; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:06:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: Andy Harrison , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:06:12 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304151206.12521.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: E-mail Scam, Addressess being collected of mailing list ::Advice Requested X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 19:06:17 -0000 On Tuesday 15 April 2003 11:45 am, Andy Harrison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On 13-Apr-2003, Bill Moran wrote message "Re: E-mail Scam, Addressess > being collected of mailing list ::Ad" > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Welcome to hell. While I don't have 100% proof ... I think you are > > absolutely > > correct: that spammers harvest email addresses from this (among > > others) list. > > I have proof... I use numbered, tracked e-mail addresses everywhere. > I've already changed addresses on the freebsd lists once (after 2 > weeks of membership) and am already receiving it at the new address. > Since I am retired, I track each one of them down. I think it is very similar to shoplifting and I treat spam a theft of services. My ISP also uses spamassassin, which helps. You can't let one get by. > Pita... One thing I do aside from other counter measures is I wrote > a little script that scrapes the active spammer list from spamcop.net > and null routes all the ip addresses. I sort it, uniq it, and keep > it trimmed down to the last 400 entries or so. Does a pretty good > job too. > BTW, I like naChoZ and Spirits. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html