From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 14 15:36:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09552 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix (phoenix.aye.net [206.185.8.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09537 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:36:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ratbert@phoenix.aye.net) From: ratbert@phoenix.aye.net Received: (qmail 10258 invoked by uid 2800); 14 Oct 1998 22:34:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 1998 22:34:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:34:41 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: ratbert@phoenix.aye.net To: Kris Kennaway cc: FreeBsD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message