On 3/21/06, Alexis Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chad, > > On 21/03/06, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5) You multiposted to users@ and discuss@ with a suspicious looking > email. > > In the last few weeks, we've been getting a lot of SPAM that way. > > > > Could you tell me how you define a suspicious looking email?
I said a suspcious looking email - *not* a suspcious looking email address. The email itself was suspcious. However, I have received plenty of SPAM from email addresses that look like they are coming from domains that I trust. At work, our email addresses all end in @shofar.com. We are the only people (the ones at work) that have that domain name in our email. However, I've gotten dozens if not hundreds of emails coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. (addies that don't exist - I know since I control all the @shofar.com address in existance). One coming from > a broad email provider (thus easy to register to), made of a combination > of > letters and numbers, or one coming from the openoffice.org domain? @openoffice.org is not a hard email address to get. It's pretty easy to register there too. And, it's free. With gmail - someone had to invite you. :-) I would > actually trust far more the latter than the former as far as downloads are > concerned... ;) > I base my trust on content not domain name. If I got an email from my best friend's email address that said "DOWNLOAD THIS NOW! ftp://link.addy.com/file.exe"; I wouldn't do it without a futher explaination from them. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ Because everyone loves free software! http://www.chadwsmith.com/ Because, admit it, you've got nothing better to do right now...
