At 05:46 2/14/01, Susan Steele wrote:
Nick said:
<< Susan, you must frequent a different type of newsgroup/website than I
do! I never get SPAM like that. ;-(>>
No newsgroups, no XXX websites...i figgered twas my association with you
guys??? :=P
SS
Susan,
If you're on the net long enough, it happens sooner or later. Sometimes
it's a shotgun spam mailing just guessing at likely user names and pairing
them with all known domain names. There are also sophisticated "bots" that
spider the internet looking for mail list archives and anything else that
might contain an email address to scoop up.
You don't need to post anything to a USENET news group, but if anyone else
cross-posts something from this list or out of its archives without
deleting email addresses, it will get picked up and you will start
receiving spam. BTW, it is considered good netiquette to _delete_ any and
all email addresses when cross-posting anything to a USENET news group!
The amount of spam I get has gone up again, so I've started tracking every
piece down to its source and complaining to the ISP's and upstream
providers about it again. With the right tools, you can figure out where
it came from. Maybe not the exact email account, but at least the
ISP. Get good enough at reading the cryptic email headers and you can spot
how stuff originating from one ISP gets distributed through an "open relay"
in a server email system somewhere else half-way around the world. There
are a lot of loosely operated systems in third-world countries where they
haven't learned yet how to secure their systems . . . or maybe don't
care. Sooner or later they get threatened with iternet blacklisting (The
Internet Black Hole List) or worse yet The Internet Death Penalty
(everybody else refuses anything coming out of their domain). UUNET
_almost_ suffered this a while back.
-- John
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