True, but newer spam filters can detect when the TO: field is filled with many random combinations. I'm switching to an ISP who's got procmail and with that comes some cool filtering abilities.
I remember getting those types of emails with the ISP I use to get connected, so I just never used that email account. They would generate addresses using a dictionary attack method. Funny, I remember thinking "I could code a script to bounce these types of messages".. Now I find out others already did. -----Original Message----- From: chat-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:chat-ad...@freenetproject.org]On Behalf Of krepta at juno.com Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:15 PM To: chat at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] source of spam On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:48:33 -0800 "Josh" < josh at mercuryfs.net <mailto:josh at mercuryfs.net> > writes: > Hey guys, I've got an off topic question for ya. > > Is it possible to remove our email addresses from the email > archives? > > I know that I started getting spam when I first posted on this list, > because > it was the first list I've ever joined (haven't been online since > compuserve), and the spam started after that. > > When I search for my email address on the net, the archived messages > come > up, and I'm certain that's how my addresses are getting into the > spam. > > I'm also switching ISPs so I can get some anti spam features, but I > figure > this probably affects all of us, not just me. > > Thanks, > > - josh There is another way the spammers find you my friend. Their computers send a single message to a truely MASSIVE number of randomly generated email addresses, you can see a list of them in the TO: and CC: fields sometimes. I have been victimized in this way many times. No matter WHAT email address I use, even if I NEVER give it out to any one online, I eventualy get flooded with spam crap. Why? Because they are like a school of piranha, constantly on the hunt for new email addresses to bombard. There is no where to hide, no where to run. They WILL find you. My email addresses are usualy Krepta at something.tic <mailto:Krepta at something.tic> or Krepta####@something.tic <mailto:Krepta####@something.tic> , it does't matter, they always find me. I've seen how they work. My dad setup an email address on MSN and NO ONE was told about the address. It was a completely unique address, unguessable by anyone but a machine spewing random addresses. And that is exactly what happened. As soon as they found an address that didn't return a "Address not found" response, they knew they had me. So they flooded me with stuff, and put my address on other databases either by selling the information or just giving it away. So I was soon being bombarded by lots of different companies. I just gave up on getting mail from MSN, until MSN decided to implement thier anti-spam technology. :) Anyway, it doesn't matter if we remove our email addresses from the public archives, they will still find us, eventualy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/chat/attachments/20020110/3aeaf74f/attachment.html>
