The current generation spam bots are getting pretty good (some actually
taking a cue from the virus that inserted random addresses in the From:
field that it found in a user's address book) and are pulling names and
domain names from the traffic going by. If she signs her name as Ruth in
a message, then it will be pulled out along with the domain name and
then sold in the 20 bazillion e-mail addresses CDs. Since Congress has
decided to take a pass lately on protecting our privacy on the 'net,
they are getting away with it.
Jerry
On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 05:15 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
>> 1) She gave her address out.
>> i) Is her user 'ruth' ? When she goes to websites? It could be they
>> reverse looked up your home ip address, and added ruth to it.
>
> That's a possibility because all machines look to the outside world as
> though they are coming from lml.homedns.org.
>>
>> 2) They guessed.
>> ii) Does anything to xxx at yourdomain.dns.com get directed to her
>> because
>> she's the top user or something? It may happen on the email server,
>> making her name appear at the top.
>
> SMTP is done with the local machine, so the domain could have been
> reverse-engineered from that. But, her other e-mail addresses don't
> have "ruth" as the name.
>
> I just checked the accounts for my kids, which have also never been
> used for mail. My daughter's had nothing, but my seven year old son had
> spam in his.
>
>> 3) They have time travel.
>
> Or crop circles have something to do with it.
> --
> Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville
> Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132
>
>
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The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
