Donatella's experience prompted me to look at the lists of addresses
that are getting lute mail. There are several other addresses that
appear to be lists of one kind or another which have $ub$cribed themselves
to the lute list. These addresses would be either spam with the
word "subscribe" near the top of the message or the result of
viruses sent to other list robots with the lute list address as
the forged return address. (This all gets complicated!) Although
these addresses are mainly subscription robots there is no real
telling what happpens to the mail that was sent to them. I have removed
the addresses that look fishy to me, but of course a lot of valid
subscribers sign up with strange names so it is hard to get them all.
I personally have two addresses that I use just for mail lists, and I
do not get spam on either one. I get perhaps 100 spam messages at my
regular address, but SpamAssassin gets most of them.
Wayne
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> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 10 07:46:12 2004
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> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:35:22 +0100
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> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: spammers on the lute list
>
> An increase of 20 or more letters after every message of mine to the list,
> for more than 3 times, is more than a coincidence... I did not send the
> address around in other ways.
>
> Donatella
>
> http://web.tiscali.it/awebd
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:28 AM
> Subject: Re: spammers on the lute list
>
>
> > Donatella,
> >
> > It is likely that your spam experience was more coincidence than lute
> list.
> > Perhaps at the same time you wrote to the list you also made an order on
> the
> > Web, or answered a Web site, or did something else that brought you to the
> > spammer's attention. One simple way for the list participants to see if
> the
> > list is compromised is to compare spam messages (and I won't get involved
> in
> > this, I kill at least twenty a night that my filters have missed, and have
> > no idea where they come from).
> >
> > A point on spam, my lady has her own email account on my domain. Anything
> > sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes into her "login" and separate email
> > account. To the best of my knowledge she has received no spam in the four
> > years she has had that account. But if she wants to go on the web I do it
> in
> > my account, so her's is kept pristine. Whereas anything not sent
> > specifically to "monique", but to any name at "murphsays.com" comes to me.
> >
> > My point being that if you want to avoid spam in your lute list messages
> you
> > might consider a separate account - or a filter. On my machine, as I have
> > some responsibilities to other listings, I have to receive the spam on my
> > main "in box", but everything sent from the lute list is redirected to a
> > special "folder", as are those from the "harplist". Should anyone want to
> > know how to make those filters with standard Windows software please let
> me
> > know. It ain't perfect, but it do help.
> >
> > Best, Jon
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:06 PM
> > Subject: spammers on the lute list
> >
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I noticed that after some months I did not write to the list, the spam I
> > > received was not more than one mail a day, and after each of my messages
> I
> > > received at least ten messages within 12 hours, so I think someone on
> the
> > > list ( hopefully not a lutenist, but it does not change much) gets hold
> of
> > > addresses for spamming purposes. I wish this person found a better and
> > more
> > > honest way to make money.
> > >
> > > Donatella
> > >
> > >
> > > http://web.tiscali.it/awebd
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > To get on or off this list see list information at
> > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
