From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 8:55:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB1937B404 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D71943E4A for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:55:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1896ys-0009Kq-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 16:55:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id DE4B2EBCE for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:55:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id E2314E887 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:54:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id A231522596; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:55:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:55:00 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Mysterious emails Message-ID: <20021105165500.GA1254@raggedclown.net> References: <20021105115907.GA1234@raggedclown.net> <20021105122446.GA98973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021105122446.GA98973@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:24:46PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:59:07PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > I wonder if anyone can throw some light on this. > > I get a *lot* of emails addressed to non-existant users > > on my domain "raggedclown.net". They all follow a pattern > > > > A single alphabetic character followed by 3 numbers. > > e.g. a1025, b3471 > > > > Now why is is anyone doing this ? These are very unlikely names, > > and non of the normal aliases are tried. I don't think it is a DoS > > either, since although they come in bursts they are usually in groups of > > up to 7 or so...and not every day..which is not going to grind me to a halt. > > These are almost definitely the result of incompetent spammers trying > to harvest e-mail addresses from mail archives on the web or some > such. They would seem to be completely unable to distinguish between > an e-mail address and a message ID --- eg. the mesage I'm replying to > has the ID number: > > 20021105115907.GA1234@raggedclown.net > > You can see where the bogus addresses come from... > Ah well, they obviously never bother to notice that i automatically reject them. Incompetent spammers .. :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message