Thanks, jim! Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><-
----- Original Message ----- From: "xo xo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:35 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Email spam bots Was: Re: Re: I've had it with email. > Dear Andrew, > > From what I can gather after reading this promo blurp, the answer is no, > sort of. > > Why?... > > Because if you notice the words "It can verify more than..." you will > realize that what they are doing is connecting to the mail server and > engaging in a conversation that entails using the "verify" command to > test the validity of an address. > > More than likely it generates the address prefixes from a pool of words > and or letter/number combinations. If an ISP uses a serialized number > scheme for user accounts then yes I guess you could say they are > harvesting addresses. > > Basically they are exploring email addresses prefixes on a per domain > basis by using the mail server as a sieve. By searching this way they > eliminate the need for dns resolutions for multiple domains, which would > precede the sending of actual mail or contacting a given server. > > I could go on about the finer details of spam but time is limited. > > jim > > > > > > > > > > Andrew Martin wrote: > > > > I've just got this spam: > > ------------------------------------------ > > Easy Email Searcher is a powerful Email software that harvests > > general Email lists from mail servers Easy Email Searcher can get 100,000 > > Email addresses directly from the Email servers in only one hour! > > > > a.. Easy Email Searcher is a 32 bit Windows Program for e-mail marketing. > > It is intended for easy and convenient search large e-mail address lists > > from mail servers. The program can be operated on Windows 95/98/ME/2000 and > > NT. > > b.. Easy Email Searcher support multi-threads (up to 512 connections). > > c.. Easy Email Searcher has the ability to reconnect to the mail server > > if the server has disconnected and continue the searching at the point where > > it has been interrupted. > > d.. Easy Email Searcher has an ergonomic interface that is easy to set up > > and simple to use. > > > > Easy Email Searcher is an email address searcher and bulk e-mail sender. > > It can verify more than 5500 email addresses per minute at only 56Kbps > > speed. It even allows you send email to valid email address while searching. > > You can save the searching progress and load it to resume work at your > > convenience. All you need to do is just input an email address, and press > > the "Search" button. > > -------------------------------------------- > > > > It advertises the spam program being able to harvest email addresses from > > mail servers! > > > > Is this possible? > > > > Andrew Martin > > ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ > > -><- > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > > subject, without the quotes. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
