Spam is evil. Thank you. Jim
-----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CS>[List Owner] Investment spam posts? Hi everybody! Your list owner is ON THE JOB!!! Okay, when one of these investment posts came through from somebody calling themselves [email protected], I figured that a member thought it was interesting and sent it along. It would have been nice if they had said something so we knew why they wanted to post it, but, in fact, it was talking about using ozone for food sanitation... a relatively obvious alternative health reference. Then a *second* copy comes under a different Subject line, from the same address. Now this starts looking like SPAM. So I went and checked the subscriber file and we don't even *have* a [email protected] ... and when you think about it the odds of anyone even having an address like b...@... from any large domain is pretty much nil. I'm sure [email protected] was taken the first day verizon was handing out userid's, probably to an employee, and that person is unlikely to be a member here. It's most likely a forgery. Digging a bit deeper, it turns out these *were* spam, and they got posted because we have an extremely similar user name already subscribed, and I had the threshold for accepting submissions set to "tight" but not "exact," and that was good enough to let it through. I've changed it now so the list server requires an *exact* match to the subscriber list entry. I hope this won't cause anyone a problem posting. If that happens, let me know. My personal e-mail address is in the footer at the bottom of every list message. Thought you'd all like to know... <GRIN> Be well, Mike D. list security guard... <sigh> ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date forwarded: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:47:20 -0800 From: "Bill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date sent: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:47:19 -0500 Forwarded by: [email protected] Send reply to: [email protected] Subject: CS>Investors profit on last minute trading [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Ticker Symbol: PDSC.PK Buy Aggressively Last Trade: 0.082 AVG Vol: 1,107,198 Short Term Target: +0.67 Long Term Target: +2.00 We believe serious news is on the horizon that can blow the lid off the stock like a powder-keg PDSC is poised to be the standard for the multi-billion dollar food safety industry. Its food sanitation process improves organic and non-organic foods. Billions of American, and International, consumers will receive quality, non-toxic, fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. An estimated 76 million Americans suffer from food-borne illnesses every year, an issue which concerns food producers, processors and retailers. [the rest deleted...] ------- End of forwarded message ------- [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
