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Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terrill Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] refrain from includeing list member names in thesubject field > No problem, sorry. I'll not send any more tips like this to the list. > Best wishes, > Terrill Reynolds > ---------- > Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Windows Messenger:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo:terrillreynolds > AIM:terrill36 > PH:(910)842-7701 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Moderator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:38 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] anti spam tips to david ingrram > > > All, > Let's refrain from includeing list member names in the subject field. > Thank you, > Richard Justice list-mmoderator > www.jaws-users.com > www.blind-computing.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terrill Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:33 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] anti spam tips to david ingrram > > > Hi David: > I keep getting my E-mail returned to your address so I'm just sending it > to > the list. > I think it is because of your subject line including the exes and your > filter is blocking it. <smile> > > I hope the below helps somewhat. <smile> > > . Use Disposable Email Addresses (DEA's) > > While disposable email addresses don't block spam from being sent to you, > they > do provide a "shell" that protects your real email address and allows you > to > remain fairly anonymous online. DEAs simply redirect email to whatever > address > you tell them to. If you use a unique disposable address for each > newsletter, > discussion list or online form that you fill out, not only will you be > able > to pinpoint > who compromised your address if you start to receive spam, but you'll also > be > able to kill that address instantly and stop the spam without having to > change > your permanent email address. > > Spamex offers a 30-day fully functional free trial (no credit card > required), and for > just $9.95 per year you can get a block of 500 disposable email addresses > to > use. > > Spamex Disposable Email Address Service > http://www.spamex.com/ > . Pay attention to privacy statements when filling out forms > > With so much information online, the last thing we want to do is be forced > to read > through six pages of a privacy statement. But that's exactly what you > should be > doing if you want to know how the site you are providing data to will be > using it. > Be careful of pre-checked boxes that say that it is okay for the company > to > share > your information with third parties, as you're indicating that it's okay > for > them to > sell your personal information. Many companies bundle that statement with > things like "Agree to receive future useful notices about your software". > Be wary. > When in doubt, use a disposable email addr ess (see above) for each place > you > register online. > > > > > > > > If you're going to complain, complain to the right person and know > what to say > > 98% of spam sent has forged headers or uses the open relay on an email > server > of an innocent party. Never automatically assume that the person or > company > listed in the From: or Reply-To: area was the originator of the spam you > received. > There is only ONE WAY to accurately determine who sent the message you > received. Here it is: > > Open your email message up in an email program like Eudora or Outlook and > from the toolbar menu choose View Source or View Headers to get a look at > the > full message with all headers (the information at the top of the message. > Ignore everything in the header, except the following lines: > > Return-Path: < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from mail.somedomain.com (mail.somedomain.com [123.123.123.123]) > > The only line that cannot be forged (faked) by a spammer is the Received: > IP > address, in the example above indicated by [brackets]. Ignore everything > else in > the message and focus on the IP address in brackets in the topmost > Received: > header. > Now go to SamSpade > http://www.samspade.org/ > > Copy and paste that IP address (without the brackets) into the "Do stuff" > form > and click to find out whom that IP address belongs to. This is the true > originator > of the message that you received. Ignore the From: and Reply-To: headers > as > they are most likely bogus. > > Once you know the domain of the company associated with the IP address > that > sent you spam, visit > http://www.abuse.net/ > to find out the email addresses of the > abuse department at that ISP. Just drop in the domain and it will provide > you > with the correct addresses to send your complaint to. > > Be warned! Not all ISP's are against spam. Some spammers use "spam- > friendly" ISPs who don't listen to complaints and don't act on complaints. > Other > ISPs will drop a company's hosting account on the first properly > documented > complaint. If you don't get a satisfactory response to your complaint, it > most > likely fell upon deaf ears. Don't let it discourage you from complaining. > > If you want to check to see if the upstream is a spam-friendly ISP before > you take > the time to send your complaint, check out SpamHaus > http://www.spamhaus.org/ > > Here is an example of a possible response that you might use to send to > the > upstream provider of the person or company that sent you spam: > > ------ Forwarded Message > > To: <upstream provider abuse address > Subject: SPAM COMPLAINT> [Subject: subject of spam message] > > > Sir or Madam: > > You provide connectivity to the originator of the spam message appended > below. > Please refer to traceroute following the message to understand how your > company provides connectivity to the perpetrator. > > I have never had any business with the sender nor do I desire to do so. > Incoming > UCE is a burden on my firm and its employees, in terms of staff time > wasted > and > the cost of bandwidth we pay for downloading mail we have no desire to > receive. > > Please act promptly to block or terminate connectivity to the perpetrator > and > notify me that action is being taken to prevent future such mailings. > > PLEASE NOTE: > My firm's SOP requires submission of your IP address for Realtime > Blackhole > Directory listing unless you shut down the offender. > > Kind regards, > > Your name > > 5 > > > > > > > -----------begin forwarded spam-------- > > Include spam message with full headers here > > -----------end forwarded spam---------- > > TRACKING INFO ON SPAMMER: > > IP: > > WHOIS LISTING: > > > ------------------------------------ > > HOSTING TRACEROUTE: IP > > INSERT TRACEROUTE HERE > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message > > . NEVER reply to spam > > This may seem like a no-brainer, but people do it all the time. What > happens > when you reply to spam is one of two things, neither of which gets you off > of the > spammer's mailing list: > > 1. You reply to a faked/spoofed/forged Reply-To or From address that > belongs to an innocent third party who had their domain hijacked and they > have no idea what you are talking about. No self-respecting spammer > uses their own email address. They hijack other peoples' or most of the > time they just make one up. > > 2. The second thing that can happen if you reply to spam is that you tell > the > spammer that your email address is functional and "live". A live email > address brings good money to spammers. It can then be added to a CD > that they sell for profit to tens of hundreds of other spammers, and > before > you know it you're seeing a ten-fold increase in spam just because you > followed the spammer's instructions and wrote to their Remove address or > filled out the form they asked you to fill out for removal. > > Don't do it! Just delete it! > > > > . Never buy anything from a company that spams > Do not, under any circumstances, buy any item or service that is promoted > via a > bulk, unsolicited emailing. If you do, you're only putting gas on the > fire. > Most > businesses that use spam as a marketing method are getting ripped off by > the > companies that conduct these bulk, unsolicited emailings. However if even > a > few > orders come in, they may see that as justification to continue using these > tactics. > > . Protect your Web site from spam-bots > > One of the ways that spammers obtain your address is through the use of > "bots" > or spiders that go out to Web sites like yours and look for "mailto:"; > links > with > email addresses. There is a plethora of bulk email software available out > there > that allows spammers to enter a keyword like "accountants". The program > then > accesses the Internet and does searches on multiple search engines under > that > keyword, visits the top ten listings or so under that keyword and then > jumps > from > page to page on those sites, sucking up email addresses and creating a > mailing > list for the spammer. > > You can protect yourself and your company by simply not including mailto: > email > address links on your site. Take an image-editing program like Photoshop > or > Macromedia Fireworks and create an image of your email address on a white > background (or the same color as your site). Make it in the same font > that > you've > used for your site. Then take the image and link that image to a contact > form on > your site. This way visitors to your site can see your company or > individual email > address and use it if they want to, either by clicking on it to a contact > form or by > typing it into a message, but spambots can't. > > > > . Learn how to use an email program with filters > > If you use Web-based email such as WebTV, Hotmail or Yahoomail for > convenience and anonymity, that's great. At some point, however, you're > going > to want to take advantage of more powerful software programs like Outlook > 2002, Eudora or Entourage X (for Mac users). These programs offer > powerful > filtering tools on the client-side that can help filter potential spam out > of your > Inbox. Armed with a handful of simple rules that are checked on each > piece > of > incoming email and a good email program, you can considerably reduce the > amount of spam you receive. > > If you're like most of us, you probably have never read the instructions > that came > with your email program or explored the many features it offers. I'm > guilty > of this > myself, so don't feel bad. There's just too much information for me to > be > bothered with reading manuals! I want an instant solution! > > Well, in this case, I can tell you from experience that not only is it > worthwhile to buy a commercial email program, but it is also worthwhile to > invest > in the manual . Find a list of email software books. books are just like > projects. You can get through them faster if you break them up into > chunks. > In this case, go through the table of contents and Put A's > next to all the chapters that are most important for you. Put B's next to > the ones > that are not as important. Number the order and start reading the book 10 > pages > a day. Put a paperclip at the beginning of where you are reading and > another > one ten pages ahead so you know when you've reached your goal for the day. > > Take your time. The more you know about the tools and filters that these > programs offer, the better off you will be. > > . Filter spam at the server level > > Brightmail > http://www.brightmail.com/ > private labels its spam-blocking service to > a variety of ISPs like Earthlink, AT&T Worldnet and others. This > technology > takes email as it comes in and compares it with an updated list of IP > addresses, > blocks and keywords that it scans in your email and if spam is suspected, > then > the message is not downloaded to your desktop but rather moved to a spam > folder and purged every three weeks automatically. > > If you own your own domain, you can take advantage of this service by > simply > mapping your own email address to an Earthlink pop account. These > services > do not block 100% of spam, but they can be effective at reducing the > number > of > messages that you receive. Most times these services are included with > the > cost > of your account, but are not turned on unless you request it or initiate > it. > .Buy your own domain and set up a virgin email address. > I hear people complaining all the time about spam, but when it comes time > to pay > money for a solution that works, everyone suddenly gets really quiet. Why > should you have to pay for a solution to stop something that you never > asked > for > in the first place? > > I agree completely. You shouldn't have to pay to solve these problems. > You > shouldn't even have these problems in the first place, but you do. That's > reality. > Many solutions to reducing spam are free and require only your time in > learning > techniques. Others are going to cost you money. > > If you're willing to pay a small fee for a solution, here's an effective > one: > > Go to > http://www.speedhost.com/ > and buy a $5 per month mini-Web account. > That's $60 per year. > > Go to > http://www.enom.com/ > and search for and buy your own domain name for > $29/year. Set up your domain so that it points to your hosting account > and > set up > a virgin email account that has never been used. > > > > 1: Set up a public and private email account > > Set up two POP accounts for yourself - a private one and a public one: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Is a public address / account that you'll use for > public communication. This may be the address that you decide to send DEA > (disposable email address) mail to (see earlier tip). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Is your new virgin email address that is private. Treat it as > you would an unlisted phone number and only give it out to those who have > a > need to cut through the clutter to reach you. NEVER use it to register > anything. > NEVER use it to post to a public forum or discussion list and instruct > others you > give it to not to give it out. NEVER list it in any directory. > > Having a private email account that is separate from your public one will > allow > you to check only that account when traveling. You'll be pleasantly > surprised to > see "real" email and only real email when you check that account. > > > > > . How to filter pornographic spam out of your Inbox > > It seems every week I get a handful of folks asking me how to keep > pornographic > spam out of their Inboxes. It can be embarrassing, especially in a work > environment, when your boss looks over your shoulder and sees subject > lines > in > your Inbox about adult Web sites. It can be devastating when a child is > using > your computer and they get an HTML-enabled email with explicit photos. > > The majority of pornographic spam is sent with HTML-enabled email, for two > reasons: > > 1. It allows spammers to display explicit images to you in hopes that you > will > be enticed to visit their adult Web site > > 2. Because those images are remotely served, spammers are able to > determine an "open rate", which tells them of X thousand or million mailed > to, how many actually opened the message and had the images load on > their computer and how many clicked through to the porn site. This > information is critical to them in deciding how responsive a list is, > which > will determine whether they mail to it multiple times or not. > > Because images are used in most porn spam, one way of blocking these types > of > messages is to use your email client to set a filter to check the body of > incoming > email messages for the following string of text: > > <img src > > This is the first portion of HTML code used to serve an image on Web pages > and > in HTML-formatted email. If your email program finds this text string > present in a > message, you may want to create a folder or mailbox called "Possible Spam" > and > have messages that meet this criterion filtered to that folder to keep > them > out of > your Inbox. Do not filter email directly to the trashcan or deleted items > folder, as > no filters are 100% foolproof. Some real email always gets filtered, so > you'll want > to just create a spam trap. > > Now, this brings up an interesting question: What about corporate users > that > send email using rich text? What about HTML email newsletters that you > subscribe to? > > . Business email or corporate email sent in HTML format or rich text > format > should > have no problem getting through to you, provided no images are included in > it. > 95% of business email that I receive is ASCII text. The other 5% is rich > formatted text, but I can't ever remember a time when a legitimate > business > communication contained an image in the body of the message. > > As far as HTML newsletters go, you can easily set a filter to look for a > subject line > string or From: address specific to that newsletter and have it filtered > to > your > Inbox as real email. Most email filter systems read and process a filter > list from > top to bottom, so if you put your newsletter filters above your spam trap > filters, > the newsletters should arrive in your Inbox just fine. > > As with anything related to email and technology, YMMV (Your Mileage May > Vary) and this will take some experimentation on your part to find out > what > works > best for you. This method won't stop text-based porn spam - that can be > blocked > using common-word filtering - but it will keep explicit HTML email porn > out > of your > Inbox quite effectively. > . Most ISP's have spam filtering which you may not know about that must be > turned on. Go to your ISP's website and see if they offer this. Many are > using > the Gray Scale methed as well as free virus E-mail scanning. > Best wishes, > Terrill Reynolds > ---------- > Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Windows Messenger:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo:terrillreynolds > AIM:terrill36 > PH:(910)842-7701----- Original Message ----- > > From: > David ingram > > To: > Terrill Reynolds > > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 6:58 AM > > Subject: what about 'xxx'? > > Hi how are you? Thank you for this information but what about 'xxx'? > > I've noticed that when i block senders list i have a lot of mail with > 'xxx'. > How can i find out where that mail is coming from and how if possible can > i stop this mail? I have a lot of mail like this or i receive mail where > the subject line isn't clear. Could that be another way for spamers to > get > you > address? Thank you for any information that you may have. I'd like to > also > be able to use this information in an anti spam program! > > Determining the Source of Spam > > > > How to find the right ISP to complain to? It takes a close look at the > spam > message's header lines. These headers contain information about the > > path an email took. > > > > follow the path until the point where the email was sent from. From this > point, also know as an > > IP address, > > it can derive the spammer's ISP and send the report to this ISP's abuse > department. > > > > Let's take a closer look at how this works. > > > > Email: Header and Body > > > > Every email message consists of two parts, the body and the header. The > header can be thought of as the envelope of the message, containing the > address > > of the sender, the recipient, the subject and other information. The body > contains the actual text and the attachments. > > > > Some header information usually displayed by your email program includes: > > List of 4 items > > . From: - The sender's name and email address. > > . To: - The recipient's name and email address. > > . Date: - The date when the message was sent. > > . Subject: - The subject line. > > list end > > > > Header Forging > > > > The > > actual delivery of emails > > does not depend on any of these headers, they are just convenience. > > > > Usually, the From: line, for example, will be set to the sender's address. > This makes sure you know who the message is from and can reply easily. > > > > Spammers want to make sure you cannot reply easily, and certainly don't > want > you to know who they are. That's why they insert fictitious email > addresses > > in the From: lines of their junk messages. > > > > Received: Lines > > > > So the From: line is useless if we want to determine the real source of an > email. Fortunately, we need not rely on it. The headers of every email > message > > also contains Received: lines. > > > > These are not usually displayed by email programs, but they can be very > helpful in tracing spam. Find out how helpful they are, and how the > analysis > works > > > > What Email Headers can Tell You About the Origin of Spam > > Parsing Received: Header Lines > > Just like a postal letter will go through a number of post offices on its > way from sender to recipient, an email message is processed and forwarded > by > several > > mail servers. > > > > Imagine every post office putting a special stamp on each letter. The > stamp > would say exactly when the letter was received, where it came from and > where > > it was forwarded to by the post office. If you got the letter, you could > determine the exact path taken by the letter. > > > > This is exactly what happens with email. > > > > Received: Lines for Tracing > > > > As a mail server processes a message, it adds a special line, the > Received: > line to the message's header. The Received: line contains, most > interestingly, > > List of 2 items > > . the server name and IP address of the machine the server received the > message from and > > . the name of the mail server itself. > > list end > > > > The Received: line is always inserted at the top of the message headers. > > If we want to reconstruct an email's journey from sender to recipient we > also start at the topmost Received: line (why we do this will become > apparent in > > a moment) and walk our way down until we have arrived at the last one, > which > is where the email originated. > > > > Received: Line Forging > > > > Spammers know that we will apply exactly this procedure to uncover their > whereabouts. To fool us, they may insert forged Received: lines that point > to somebody > > else sending the message. > > > > Since every mail server will always put its Received: line at the top, the > spammers' forged headers can only be at the bottom of the Received: line > chain. > > This is why we start our analysis at the top and don't just derive the > point > where an email originated from the first Received: line (at the bottom). > > > > How to Tell a Forged Received: Header Line > > > > The forged Received: lines inserted by spammers to fool us will look like > all the other Received: lines (unless they make an obvious mistake, of > course). > > By itself, you can't tell a forged Received: line from a genuine one. > > > > This is where one distinct feature of Received: lines comes into play. As > we've noted above, every server will not only note who it is but also > where > it > > got the message from (in IP address form). > > > > We simply compare who a server claims to be with what the server one notch > up in the chain says it really is. If the two don't match, the earlier > Received: > > line has been forged. > > > > In this case, the origin of the email is what the server immediately after > the forged Received: line has to say about who it got the message from. > > > > Are you ready for > > an example? > > List of 5 items > > > > > > Example Spam Analyzed and Traced > > Now that we know > > the theoretical underpinning, > > let's see how analyzing an junk email to identify its origin works in real > life. > > > > I've just received an exemplary piece of spam that we can use for > exercise. > Here are the header lines: > > > > Received: from unknown (HELO 38.118.132.100) (62.105.106.207) > > by mail1.infinology.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2003 19:50:37 -0000 > > Received: from [235.16.47.37] by 38.118.132.100 id <5416176-86323>; Sun, > 16 > Nov 2003 13:38:22 -0600 > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Reinaldo Gilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "Reinaldo Gilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Category A Get the meds u need lgvkalfnqnh bbk > > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:38:22 GMT > > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > > boundary="9B_9.._C_2EA.0DD_23" > > X-Priority: 3 > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > > > > Can you tell the IP address where the email originated? > > > > Sender and Subject > > > > First, take a look at the - forged - From: line. > > The spammer wants to make it look as if the message was sent from a > > Yahoo! Mail > > account. Together with the Reply-To: line, this From: address is aimed at > directing all bouncing messages and angry replies to a non-existing Yahoo! > Mail > > account. > > > > Next, the Subject: is a curious agglomeration of random characters. It is > barely legible and obviously designed to fool > > spam filters > > (every message gets a slightly different set of random characters), but it > is also quite skillfully crafted to get the message across in spite of > this. > > > > The Received: Lines > > > > Finally, the Received: lines. Let's begin with the oldest, Received: from > [235.16.47.37] by 38.118.132.100 id <5416176-86323>; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 > 13:38:22 > > -0600. There are no host names in it, but two IP addresses: 38.118.132.100 > claims to have received the message from 235.16.47.37. If this is correct, > 235.16.47.37 > > is where the email originated, and we'd find out which ISP this IP address > belongs to, then > > send an abuse report > > to them. > > > > Let's see if the next (and in this case last) server in the chain confirms > the first Received: line's claims: Received: from unknown (HELO > 38.118.142.100) > > (62.105.106.207) by mail1.infinology.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2003 > 19:50:37 -0000. > > > > Since mail1.infinology.com is the last server in the chain and indeed "my" > server I know that I can trust it. It has received the message from an > "unknown" > > host that claimed to have the IP address 38.118.132.100 (using the > > SMTP HELO command). > > So far, this is in line with what the previous Received: line said. > > > > Now let's see where my mail server did get the message from. To find out, > we > take a look at the IP address in brackets immediately before by > mail1.infinology.com. > > This is the IP address the connection was established from, and it is not > 38.118.132.100. No, 62.105.106.207 is where this piece of junk mail was > sent > > from. > > Best wishes, > Terrill Reynolds > ---------- > Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Windows Messenger:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo:terrillreynolds > AIM:terrill36 > PH:(910)842-7701 > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
