Thanks from me too, Mark. At least this spammer gave us a big clue with the words on his URL. I immediately marked it junk. But as I did so I wondered if it might contain a virus so that if I had mindlessly clicked on the URL, it would have them appeared on my email correspondents' in-boxes as having come from me? Barbara van Achterberg
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Mark McDonough <[email protected]>wrote: > Cliff Booker wrote: "Where would we be without your tremendous > contribution Mark? Many thanks from us all. Cheers" > > ============ > > Thanks Cliff, but I must say administrative duties on Alpine-L require > very little time or effort (notice how quiet it's been on Alpine-L), > typically all I need to do is review and reject about 5-6 spam emails each > week. In contrast, the amount of effort that goes into the forums such as > NARGS or SRGC is much greater, I suspect due to the fact spammers are > attracted to newer forum media (with visual content) like moths to an open > flame. > > On the NARGS Forum for example, we have a plugin installed that > automatically blocks spammy registration requests, on average blocking > 50-100 such bogus registration requests each and every day. However, even > with that in place, as many as 20 or more bogus registration requestion > requests per week still get through for review. > > For each of these, I use another utility that checks the applicant's IP > address, email address, and selected forum username, against 14 > internet-based databases of known spammers. Because spammers generate new > email addresses daily, to "give the appearance" of clean non-spammy > credentials for at least a day or two (until they start getting reported > and added to the spam databases), it still takes some effort and time to > vet each registration request to determine if they are really a legitimate > plant person of a nefarious spammer. > > I suspect the text-based maillists hold less allure for spammers, and > probably less visibility to the spamming world, thus rarely get hit with > such spamming force as seen in "social media" sites. > > Regards, > > Mark McDonough > Alpine-L co-list-owner > [email protected] > Massachusetts, USA > ***your Alpine-L account settings*** > http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l > ***Alpine-L archive message links*** > http://mailman.science.uu.nl/pipermail/alpine-l/ > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html > ***Alpine-L AlpenPix photo uploads > http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix > > _______________________________________________ > Alpine-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/alpine-l > >
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