Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:34:41 -0400 (EDT) From: ratbert@phoenix.aye.net To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBsD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service unavailable to grog@lemis.com or grog@freebie.lemis.com Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981014183143.9677A-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9810142306540.32351-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 rabtter has morphed into ratbert :-) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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