[cfaussie] Re: CFAUSSIE to be blamed for Spam?

[Laszlo Simity]

Usually because they hack the mail headers to make it appear to come from an address (that usually) doesn't exist.  They also often spoof the originating IP address, so it can be reasonably difficult to trace it back to the original source. I might add that it's usually not a good idea to reply to spam because if it is actually an email address they expect things from it will confirm to them that your email address is an active one, and you'll be sold onto other lists of confirmed addresses! Peter Jones wrote: Something that has aways had me asking myself the same question over and over again, in the instance of spam, not even I am immune, I reply to the email addresses with not so nice insults in my messages only for the messages to be returned. How can an email com from a mail, if it doesnt exist? Classic example of spam received 2night from [EMAIL PROTECTED], one of those pyramid spam mails, only for it to be returned as an inactive mailbox?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: cfaussie To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:58 PM Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CFAUSSIE to be blamed for Spam? Well on this, I am using Spam Arrest at the moment but thats about use useful as a third nipple. I posted a theory on http://macrofun.pvpers.com, but basically CFMX could be the answer! In that you could write an app that auto-filters email via cfpop3. That works like Spam Arrest but with extra features. Majority of the SPAM that comes through has different a body but you fine one or two similiarities with them all, whether that be the click action is to the same domain, or they use stat based banners to handle their tracking.. either way instead of banning IP addresses, Email Addresses and Keywords, you could also put bans in place on domains (if message contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] then delete it straight away as its spam. Anyway read up some more on Macrofun if your interested. I don't have the time at the moment to do anything but sneeze (new born, work and Empire Earth *Good game*). So if someone wants to write such an app, i'd love to have a copy :) Scott "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Just bouncing off some mass histeria and false prosecutions... but.. How many of you are getting SPAM more and more these days? I say this as i reluctantly ever give out my scott at spidaweb.com address, only to trusted places like CFAUSSIE. Only, if do a search on my email addy via google, CFAUSSIE's mail-archive.com comes up? (insert email robotos here dewd) Am I just paranoid or do others share the same b.s Scott. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/