Re: speedy spam
Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net> said on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:20:09 -0400:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2003 6:45 am, Andrew Hayes wrote:
> >Jeff Elkins wrote:
> >> Well, hell.
> >>
> >> I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it
> >> Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email
> >> viruses and spam.
> >
> >You aren't the only one, since signing up I've been blasted like
> >buggering regardless of Mozillas spam filters, no offense but screw this
> > for a game of soldiers.
>
> It's pretty bad. I'm doing the fetchmail/mailfilter/spamassassin dance, so my
> post was mainly just a whine. Exposing a "secure" address was a stupid
> mistake on my part :(
>
> I wonder if anyone has thought of obfustcating email addresses on the list's
> web archives? I wonder how many 'bots regularly scrape it for addresses?
Actually, that will do no good.
It has been brought up before that the entire list gets mirrored to
news://linux.debian.user
And in fact, that is where I am reading this from.
And it has been pointed out before that the SWEN varients seem to
mainly get their addresses from USENET, using built in newservers in
the virus code.
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