From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 19:17:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9671037B417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:17:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fBM3HU381449; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:17:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:17:30 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Julian Stacey Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam In-Reply-To: <200112211610.fBLGATc85876@jhs.muc.de> Message-ID: <20011221220912.S81018-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved from current. 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message