Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:13:16 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <19971020111316.33689@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <9710170446.AA20901@compton>; from Kristian Kennaway on Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 02:16:47PM %2B0930 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971016204728.21896A-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> <9710170446.AA20901@compton>
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Kristian Kennaway: |I'd just like to note that today I received my first ever spam-mail, |after posting to this list for the first time a few days ago. Until now |I've been successfully "hiding" by not having my email address make it |out onto UseNet or anywhere else grepped by spammers. Jonathan M. Bresler: | we seem to be seeing a new tactic, | evil spammer subscribes and harvests addresses from the | list traffic. I'd hazard a guess that the spammers aren't harvesting from the list e-mail distribution directly but from NetNews (because of those numerous list-to-NetNews gateways that some folks in the world funnel the FreeBSD list traffic into). These pseudo-groups get out and into spam farmer newsrc's without any real action on their part. Easy pickins'. If I didn't choose to post to NetNews with my real e-mail address anyway, I'd complain about these news gateways. As is, I just grin and have some fun bustin' spammers with their ISPs. And procmail bounce rules to postmaster,abuse,root for those ISPs that don't seem to care. Randallhome | help
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