On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:34:32PM -0700, Harald Sundt wrote: > > I am swamped by a kink of message that no matter whether it is > advertising "Russian Teens", "Cheap V-----", or "Hillary's House of > Hills", any of a score young ladies or exotic sites... Your email got caught in my spam filter, but I'll reply now. I munged the v-word so replies don't get caught again.
> ...all which have a similar format in fonts and "click here" to remove. > > I have been advised that THE ALST THING I WANNA DO IS TO CLICK HERE. This is corect. > So my challenge is: What agency is sending these diverse teasers to > me,...or by what program are they grinding out almost identically > formatted come ons. Many agencies, they are similarly formatted because that is what works, what gets passed email filters, what people read, etc. They are all different enought that spam filtering is a challenge. If they were really identical, it would be a piece of cake. > Does the click here free you or trap you as a "live one"? Click here, or replying to unsubscribe lets them know that there is some who checks that email address. If you respond you will get put in to a list and sold among one of 260 million "verified" addresses. Count how many spams you get in a day. Respond to all of them asking to be removed. Now count how many spams you get the next day. It won't go down. > Is there some EVIL source for all of these? Or did some evil person > sell a program to bulk mail diverse content to a List? Sure, the root cause of all evil is in some way responsible for evil spam. However spam comes from many sources. There are certain known spammers who are responsible for large portions of it. > And why does the SPAM eater miss these? Depends on what your spam eater is and how it is configured. I use bogofilter, impsec's procmail sanitizer and a variety of procmail recipies that I have written myself. It is not perfect, but pretty good. I'm still fine tuning bogofilter. A new thing spammers are doing, in order to get around beyesian mail filters is using misspelled words. Using "young b0ys" which does not match with "young boys". This is an interesting one I see in my quarantine, "young b0ys -fo..ck" Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
