RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
Well, let's see now, I get approximately 150 over the weekend and they end up in my junk folder. About 99% are filtered out. That's the number that got through our network filter. -Original Message- From: Allen E. Elwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:33 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution I get about 10 a day, but 95% of those end up in my ZoneAlarm junk mail or challenged mail folders. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Wurlod Nice idea, though I believe my heavy-duty spam filters must be working - I get very few. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
If you check the headers of the junk mail, you'll see that they're not coming from the list. The lists are setup so that only subscribers can post, and email addresses must be validated before they are subscribed. My guess is that your email address has been harvested from IndexFocus, Nabble, or one of the other archives. Larry Hiscock Moderator -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Banker Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 6:08 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution Well, let's see now, I get approximately 150 over the weekend and they end up in my junk folder. About 99% are filtered out. That's the number that got through our network filter. -Original Message- From: Allen E. Elwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:33 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution I get about 10 a day, but 95% of those end up in my ZoneAlarm junk mail or challenged mail folders. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Wurlod Nice idea, though I believe my heavy-duty spam filters must be working - I get very few. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
All, Larry is right. He and I get to see the stuff that gets caught. You'd be amazed how many classmates of U2-Users are looking to get back in touch. How many Nigerian relatives U2-Users has lost in the last year, the number exceeds the number of people in Nigeria. Fortunately, U2-Users has won several British and International Lotteries... - Chuck Larry Hiscock wrote: If you check the headers of the junk mail, you'll see that they're not coming from the list. The lists are setup so that only subscribers can post, and email addresses must be validated before they are subscribed. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
This is exactly my point. I have good filtering too on servers and local
workstations, but I still get some spam. If they don't have your real
email address they can't send you spam. The spam volume directly resulting
from my postings to this forum suddenly shot up a couple weeks ago. After
unsubscribing from this forum and then re-subscribing with this new
address, I just deleted the old address and now I'm getting zero spam from
that particular attack vector. That doesn't eliminate spam entirely but
every little bit helps. Sneakemail.com also runs through filters (which
serves as a pre-filter to your own) and optionally does greylisting, which
challenges sending servers to re-send mail - a legitimate server will
re-send but a spammer will not.
So anyway, I don't want to belabor this thread, just share some info that
might be of use since this forum was specifically targeted.
Since we're here, note that version 4 of my Outlook macros for Subject
cleanup is available on our freeware site (download macro4, all info is in
there):
remove.this.part.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/freeware/
It removes text like {unclassified}, redundant tokens like
re:[U2][UD]re:re:[UD][UD] and the funky text inserted by other people's
email processors that we see in this forum. It's free, safe, open source,
and I use it all the time so I know it works.
Regards,
Tony Gravagno
Nebula Research and Development
TG@ remote.thisNebula-RnD.com
Jerry Banker wrote:
Well, let's see now, I get approximately 150 over the weekend and they
end up in my junk folder. About 99% are filtered out. That's the
number that got through our network filter.
From: Allen E. Elwood
I get about 10 a day, but 95% of those end up in my ZoneAlarm junk
mail or challenged mail folders.
From Ray Wurlod
Nice idea, though I believe my heavy-duty spam filters must be
working - I get very few.
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RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
Larry Hiscock wrote: My guess is that your email address has been harvested from IndexFocus, Nabble, or one of the other archives. This is correct, spam is not coming through the listserver. While it is a subscription only list, anyone who has posted to this forum has their address in plain view for a harvester to send mail directly, so the net effect is roughly the same. The 'user-at-domain' notation is not adequate to deter unprincipled mass mailers. T --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
Nice idea, though I believe my heavy-duty spam filters must be working - I get very few. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Spam to forum addresses - Endorsement for a solution
I get about 10 a day, but 95% of those end up in my ZoneAlarm junk mail or challenged mail folders. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Wurlod Nice idea, though I believe my heavy-duty spam filters must be working - I get very few. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
