Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:17:30 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Julian Stacey <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam Message-ID: <20011221220912.S81018-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <200112211610.fBLGATc85876@jhs.muc.de>
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Today Julian Stacey wrote:
> PS Maybe if we were to regularly automatically scramble all email addresses
> in our web searchable mail archives ? just inserting ._ErAsE_ThIs_. in every
> email address would protect us from easy harvesting by simple spammer robots.
Spammers don't care if the addresses are valid. The `dictionary
attacks' are the killers, from an ISP's POV. Day after day it is
a constant flood of:
al1@dom.ain
al2@dom.ain
...
al10@dom.ain
alvin1@dom.ain
alvin2@dom.ain
...
zelda1@dom.ain
mail# grep "User unknown" /var/log/maillog | wc -l
138872
That's in 22 hours and 14 minutes. We have just over 3,300
active email accounts.
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Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst
jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc.
Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key.
PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD
enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null
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