Re: OT : sharp increase in email spam

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:15:17 +0000 (UTC), Anand Nene
<anandnNOSPAM@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 06:22 GMT, ric zito wrote:

client, but the sudden increase in wasted bandwidth is alarming.

Europeans worrying about wasted bandwidth!? LOL :))

Why LOL ?

Anyone else seeing this?

Not me, but I guess depends on what kind email traffic you are
dealing with, if your mail server has server side filtering (but
may piss you off at some times, it can go on steroids); If you
have buddies like Frank, who drinks cats piss and lets his news
reader quote your email id in full, and your id does not have
a spam-trap, and you communicate with folks in places which are
open to the internet, thats game over...

And you think that bots are only looking at reply posts ? Really ?
I thought you were a programmer of sorts, but whatever..
Would you not harvest the headers of all posts if you were to create
such bot ? Of course you would and it's piss easy to guestimate
attempted masks such as 'mymail at myserver dot com', because for one,
that would be the first thing even a script kiddie would check for and
for the other any guestimated address can only bounce to your
non-existing fake address so why would you give a *** if your bot
happened to send to false address.
Ain't rocket surgery.

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Regards, Frank
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