Interstingly I noticed an apparent increase in the number of emails I receive fitting the pattern of this particular mail's text so I started saving them for future analysis.
Over 8 days, I've noticed and saved 14 emails. Looking at the headers, I find that 9 unique IP addresses originated those messages. The repeats always occured at the same time. (There were 6 unique /16 adresses). So I fear that the cows are out of the barn by the time an IP address could be identified and blocked. Of the 14 samples I've collected, 2 copies correlated with Danny's notice and there was one more with an attachment, again a long list of email addresses. We would probably find that these emails are the result of one or more of the 'work at home' and earn big bucks spams. The attached distribution list is showing up based on some kind of bug in their software. The annotation comments suggest a spider is scanning some kind of web source. So I checked out the gnatbox list archives .... there is a cute protector that avoids planting email addresses on the web page. BUT it took me less than 30 minutes to crack the protection. Since the archive is obviously shared technology, they apparently found it useful to write a specific spider to crawl it. I diffed the two email lists I found and discovered a single intersection ... me. I haven't bothered to figure out what the other list is yet. BUT I would respectfully request GTA to have their archive provided remove the email response facility from the archive. Replies should be to the list and not individuals anyway. Now that I've done this research, I'll see what else has been said. Dave Morris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
