Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:22:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" <peter@bsdly.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list Message-ID: <20070824002232.GC46832@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070823231906.GA46832@thought.org> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBCEHECGAA.fbsd2@a1poweruser.com> <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> <20070823195015.GA45853@thought.org> <87mywilzxt.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> <20070823231906.GA46832@thought.org>
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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
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