Yes, but Dennis Fisher is a senior editor at eWeek. Don't they have someone give these article the once over before printing them?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Interesting tactic.. > This sounds like an urban legend to me. Keep in mind that there was > some news release a few weeks ago that indicated AOL was seeing > dramatically less spam traffic. I think it is likely that AOL has > succeeded in blocking more spam, and the article was rehashed by someone > that didn't understand the topic and assumed that this meant a drop in > spam. This used to happen all the time, even in industry mags, back > when the Internet was becoming a big deal. Same thing with spam now. > I'm sure that they mess up articles about medicine, astronomy, etc., and > we just don't know enough to see through the mistakes. > > Matt > > > > Dan Geiser wrote: > > >I don't get this article at all. How is this any different then sending > >e-mails with using domains that you have no intention of ever using? Why > >would you want to register the domain name and then associated yourself with > >a domain used in a spam mailing? And from a technical standpoint why would > >a distributed DNS system be overloaded by trying to lookup bogus domain > >names? > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Kami Razvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:50 PM > >Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Interesting tactic.. > > > > > > > > > >><http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749328,00.asp> > >>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749328,00.asp\ > >> > >>"One troublesome technique finding favor with spammers involves sending > >> > >> > >mass > > > > > >>mailings in the middle of the night from a domain that has not yet been > >>registered. After the mailings go out, the spammer registers the domain > >>early the next morning." > >> > >>Hmmmm > >> > >>Kami > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) > > > >--- > >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > >--- > >This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > >unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > >type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > >at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > > > > > > > -- > ===================================================== > MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. > http://www.mailpure.com/software/ > ===================================================== > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
