Bart Schaefer Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:39 PM
It would have been more interesting if you had used different tagged
addresses for each of the unsubscribes, so you could track which one was
the culprit, and look for similarities in the headers of the pre- and
post- unsubscribe spams
Colin A. Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:06 PM
I was curious as to how many spams actually had unsub links. So I flipped
through my last 40 SA flagged messages. I setup a honeypot address and
it's
the only address I submitted to any of the unsub pages. Here is the
distribution of
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
Today I received my first spam to the honeypot address I setup about 3
weeks ago (bgates at colinabartlett dot com). This is an address I never
used before and sent only to the aforementioned unsubscribe links.
It's pretty safe to say now that
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:28 AM
What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails
that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam.
The unsubscribe links of the worst of the worst spammers either don't work
at all (invalid links, 404, etc.),
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:28:24AM -0500, Leon Oosterwijk wrote:
All,
I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if
spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through
it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Leon Oosterwijk wrote:
I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What
if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came
through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way
people would automatically get unsubbed from some
It's arguable whether that will unsubscribe them, or confirm to the
spammer that they've scored a direct hit, and make your users a more
valuable spam target. Think about it: Is someone who just hijacked a
Taiwanese elementary school's mail server to send out necrophilia
pornography with forged
Leon Oosterwijk wrote:
I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if
spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through
it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would
automatically get unsubbed from some of these lists.
Rule
Frrom somewhere in another dimension Leon Oosterwijk wrote:
All,
I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if
spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through
it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would
automatically
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:28 AM
What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails
that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam.
The unsubscribe links of the worst of the worst spammers either don't work
at all (invalid links, 404, etc.),
On 10/14/03 08:28 AM, Leon Oosterwijk sat at the `puter and typed:
All,
I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if
spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through
it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:45 PM
I'd like to set up a couple such honeypots and see what the level of
attraction is they get. Perhaps this would make a good research project.
I was curious as to how many spams actually had unsub links. So I flipped
through my last 40 SA
At 14:06 10/14/2003 -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:45 PM
I'd like to set up a couple such honeypots and see what the level of
attraction is they get. Perhaps this would make a good research project.
I was curious as to how many spams actually
Roger Merchberger Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:50 PM
Where might I find the script that's doing the automagic posting? I
wouldn't mind doing that, either... ;-)
I don't think there IS one. That was some of the discussion we had here. I
just manually tried them. Took about 10 minutes to go
Roger,
I'm thinking about writing one. I'll post here if I come up with something.
Leon
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
Set up a pristine new email address, but DON'T GIVE IT OUT TO
ANYONE.
Everytime you get a spam with an unsubscribe link, follow it and
unsubscribe this new pristine address. Nevermind who the message was
sent to, I promise the unsub page won't
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