Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:50:15 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Peter N. M. Hansteen" <peter@bsdly.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list Message-ID: <20070823195015.GA45853@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBCEHECGAA.fbsd2@a1poweruser.com> <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > "fbsd2" <fbsd2@a1poweruser.com> writes: > > > It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list > > before I start receiving spam on the new email address. > > Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a number of sources, > including but not limited to web pages of all kinds and any and all > files accessible from malware infected hosts. > > > Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address > > before the post gets sent to the list members. Why can't this list > > do the same thing > > Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email > addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to > impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make > the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful. > > Making spammers fun to watch: Publish your list of known bad spamtrap > addresses, watch them use their harvested garbage to trigger their own > descent into the spamd tarpit. Details via selected posts in my blog > (the blogspot.com ref in the signature). > If your user login is "smith", you could have all mailing list mail sent to "smitty" and keep an open mutt or other reader a click away. Spam could be easily flagged ... . I'm bcc'ing this to my account with evolution to check out your blog info. I've run into problems with spamd and other suites. gary > Cheers, > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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