On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00:03 +0000,
Automatic digest processor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:50:40 -0400
>From: Jonathan Paul Sank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Spamming tactics
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>Oh, OK, I see. The problems y'all have with spam seem real enough, and it
>becomes clear to me that I simply haven't run into the problems you have.
>In fact, considering the kind of Grade A (for Abominable) stuff y'all have
>gotten, I must say I've never received any USDA Grade A Spam. I wonder
>why.
The easiest way I've found to get spam is to post something in a
newsgroup on usenet. That's why some people disguise their
'Reply-To:' address like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', or at the bottom, like:
whbaldwin (at) iquest (dot) net. That's so the bots can't recognize a
valid address to spam. On my signature, below, the bots have only
been spamming the 2nd email, not the 1st, for some reason.
After a post on usenet, I can usually look forward to 5 or 10
spams the next few days. I usually respond to them with 'Remove' in
the subject line, and then I'm not bothered much again until my next
post. If someone were a lot more active on the internet than I,
though, I could see how they could be constantly fighting spam.
Speaking about Internet folklore, I was recently thinking about a
person or entity nicknamed the 'CancelMoose', who was believed to
reside in Canada, and was rumoured to have developed a bot which would
search and cancel usenet spam messages (a slightly different thing
than email spam). Anyone remember this from about '95 or so? I
haven't heard or seen anything about him/it for some time. Guess I'll
have to check the Internet folklore or Urban legends sites. I was
curious how it distinguished spam from other messages.
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