Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:53:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pulling email addresses from freebsd lists Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971020124951.28888B-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19971020111316.33689@ct.picker.com>
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One thing that might help is possibly assigning handles to email addresses on freebsd.org like 189291@freebsd.org = jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org and only allowing mail from other handles on that list to be redirected through freebsd.org to the mailer It would be much less likely for a spammer to attack because they would half to attack from a subscribed account. Or something like this... On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Randall Hopper wrote: > Kristian Kennaway: > |I'd just like to note that today I received my first ever spam-mail, > |after posting to this list for the first time a few days ago. Until now > |I've been successfully "hiding" by not having my email address make it > |out onto UseNet or anywhere else grepped by spammers. > > Jonathan M. Bresler: > | we seem to be seeing a new tactic, > | evil spammer subscribes and harvests addresses from the > | list traffic. > > > I'd hazard a guess that the spammers aren't harvesting from the list e-mail > distribution directly but from NetNews (because of those numerous > list-to-NetNews gateways that some folks in the world funnel the FreeBSD > list traffic into). These pseudo-groups get out and into spam farmer > newsrc's without any real action on their part. Easy pickins'. > > If I didn't choose to post to NetNews with my real e-mail address anyway, > I'd complain about these news gateways. As is, I just grin and have some > fun bustin' spammers with their ISPs. And procmail bounce rules to > postmaster,abuse,root for those ISPs that don't seem to care. > > Randall > >
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