Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:45:06 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: __Clint__ <clint@acm.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ! why? Message-ID: <9FE5937A-7E62-11D8-95D4-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20040325083229.S73389-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu> References: <20040325083229.S73389-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu>
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On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:37 AM, __Clint__ wrote: >>> The "clint+freebsddotorg@acm.vt.edu" email was a one-time disposable >>> email address that I only ever gave to FreeBSD.org. >> >> Well, you started out with the right strategy, but you abandoned it >> too >> soon. You've now blown what looks like your real email address. >> Never >> reveal your true email address, for it can be used against you. > > How have I blown it? I sent a note to abuse@freebsd.com when I got > spammed. The automatic bounceback said to send it to > questions@freebsd.com. If questions@freebsd.com is actually a mail > list, > I was never told. > > So yes -- maybe it's been blown (even further) now. > > But that is due to your poor bounceback message. > > 1) I get spam > 2) I complain to abuse > 3) it bounces with a message to use another address > 4) I guess, from what you've said, that address is a mail list > > so in exchange for complaining about you selling my > clint+freebsddotorg@acm.vt.edu email address to spammers, you have now > redirected me into unknowningly posting to a mail list, thereby causing > more spam. > > Maybe when I get spam I should just sit here helpless and do nothing. > > But that didn't work well for the jews in WWII. > Complacency is not an attitude I like to adopt. > > What are you talking about?? Did you get spam that REPORTED to be FROM the FreeBSD list? If so, look up spoofing and forging headers...the FreeBSD list had NOTHING to do with it.
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