From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 14 06:42:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24514 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24500 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from mercury (mercury [129.127.36.44]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id XAA04590; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:12:25 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by mercury; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/27Nov97-0404PM) id AA30796; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:12:25 +0930 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:12:22 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Barrett Richardson Cc: FreeBsD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Barrett Richardson wrote: > I have a theory that the sole purpose of the original posting was to > collect e-mail addresses to be assembled later into a $29.95 spam kit. That was my initial thought as well - I mean, what kind of username is "needinfo" other than the choice of a none-too-imaginative idiot who wanted to pull off the kind of scam you described ("Help me, I need info about your XXX"). The fact that this has got to be about the most effort-intensive method of harvesting spam addresses (targeting different mailing lists manually, however vaguely, in the hope of getting a handful of extra email addresses, most of which are likely already known to spammers) shows how desperate some people can get to pursue their chosen vocation :-) My only other comment is that forwarding your email back to someone you believe to be an email-harvester (now trimmed from the CC) was probably not the wisest of moves :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message