Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:34:41 -0400 (EDT) From: ratbert@phoenix.aye.net To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBsD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981014183143.9677A-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810142306540.32351-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Barrett Richardson wrote:
>
> > I have a theory that the sole purpose of the original posting was to
> > collect e-mail addresses to be assembled later into a $29.95 spam kit.
>
> That was my initial thought as well - I mean, what kind of username is
> "needinfo" other than the choice of a none-too-imaginative idiot who wanted to
> pull off the kind of scam you described ("Help me, I need info about your
> XXX"). The fact that this has got to be about the most effort-intensive method
> of harvesting spam addresses (targeting different mailing lists manually,
> however vaguely, in the hope of getting a handful of extra email addresses,
> most of which are likely already known to spammers) shows how desperate some
> people can get to pursue their chosen vocation :-)
>
> My only other comment is that forwarding your email back to someone you
> believe to be an email-harvester (now trimmed from the CC) was probably not
> the wisest of moves :-)
>
> Kris
rabtter has morphed into ratbert :-)
>
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