Re: Fighting email spam and anti-UBE pointers

Usenet Beavis writes:

On comp.mail.misc, in <mail/anti-ube-pointer_1143005717@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "<jari.aalto AT poboxes.com> (Jari Aalto+mail.procmail)" wrote:

<article downloaded and read>

Any newcomers should read past responses to this regular posting
by a spammer pretending to be a spamfighter.

Finally, Beavis comes out of the closet. Mark today's date on the calendar. On today's date, Beavis finally figured out that he's been advocating spamming in the name of spamfighting.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

Go to the above webform and plug in the name of this group and the search key "Usenet Beavis".

Very informative. Thanks for the tip.

[Note: it's not my fault that I'm a complete dumbass. I was dropped on my head as a child. See http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/ for more information]

Beavis

FAQ: Canonical list of questions Beavis refuses to answer (V1.50)

This is a canonical list of questions that Beavis never answers. This FAQ is posted on a semi-regular schedule, as circumstances warrant.

For more information on Beavis, see:

http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/kooks/ac/

Although Beavis has been posting for a long time, he always remains silent on the subjects enumerated below. His response, if any, usually consists of replying to the parent post with a loud proclamation that his Usenet-reading software runs a magical filter that automatically identifies anyone who's making fun of him, and hides those offensive posts. For more information see question #9 below.

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1) If your Challenge-Response spam filter works so well, why are you munging your address, when posting to Usenet?

2) If spammers avoid forging real E-mail addresses on spam, then where do all these bounces everyone reports getting (for spam with their return address was forged onto) come from?

3) If your Challenge-Response filter is so great, why do you still munge when posting to Usenet?

4) Do you still believe that rsh is the best solution for remote access? (http://tinyurl.com/5qqb6)

5) What is your evidence that everyone who disagrees with you, and thinks that you're a moron, is a spammer?

6) How many different individuals do you believe really post to comp.mail.misc? What is the evidence for your paranoid belief that everyone, except you, who posts here is some unknown arch-nemesis of yours?

7) How many times, or how often, do you believe is necessary to announce that you do not read someone's posts? What is your reason for making these regularly-scheduled proclamations? Who do you believe is so interested in keeping track of your Usenet-reading habits?

8) When was the last time you saw Bigfoot (http://tinyurl.com/23r3f)?

9) If your C-R system employs a spam filter so that it won't challenge spam, then why does any of the mail that passes the filter, and is thusly presumed not to be spam, need to be challenged?

10) You claim that the software you use to read Usenet magically identifies any post that makes fun of you. In http://tinyurl.com/3swes you explain that "What I get in my newsreader is a mock post with fake headers and no body, except for the first parts of the Subject and From headers."

Since your headers indicate that you use slrn and, as far as anyone knows, the stock slrn doesn't work that way, is this interesting patch to slrn available for download anywhere?

11) You regularly post alleged logs of your procmail recipe autodeleting a bunch of irrelevant mail that you've received. Why, and who exactly do you believe is interested in your mail logs?

12) How exactly do you "enforce" an "order" to stay out of your mailbox,
supposedly (http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)? Since you issue this "order" about
every week, or so, apparently nobody wants to follow it. What are you going
to do about it?

13) What's with your fascination with ***? (also http://tinyurl.com/cs8jt)?

14) You complain about some arch-nemesis of yours always posting forged
messages in your name. Can you come up with even a single URL, as an example
of what you're talking about?

15) You always complain about some mythical spammers that pretend to be
spamfighters (http://tinyurl.com/br4td). Who exactly are those people, and
can you post a copy of a spam that you supposedly received from them, that
proves that they're really spammers, and not spamfighters?

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