Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
On Thursday 04 October 2001 04:54 am, P Kirk wrote:
> Its my impression that there are only a few email harvesters out there
> and that they don't work very hard. Perhaps once you have a list with a
> million names, its not worth wasting time building a new one.
I suspect there is some truth to that.
> That was over 3 years ago. Since then I have used pknews all over
> usenet and patrick in quite a few mailing lists. Yet over half the 20
> or so pieces of spam I get every day are to that old pkirk address which
> hasn't been used publicly in 3 years.
About half of the spam I get these days is addressed not to my real address
but to about half a dozen addresses of the form
m2k91dd8zv.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net
always beginning with "m2" and ending with ".fsf" and not to my ISP's mail
server but directly to my Linux box. It took me a while to figure out they
aren't email addresses at all. They're usenet message ID's generated by
gnus. Gnus was my mail and news reader of choice for several years before I
embraced KDE, but I haven't posted to usenet from gnus in a couple of years.
> Perhaps I need to get out more :-(
Perhaps we all do. :-}
--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
They have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.
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