On Thursday, September 23, 1999, 22:59:49 PM +0200, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
composed profoundly about 'Anti-spam filters (was:Re[5]: List Administration Note)':
SL> In short, the way that spammers operate, they aren't going to put the
SL> address in there with everyone else's since it doesn't put the ad up front and
SL> it increases the size of the data block. They aren't going to address them
SL> individually because that requires them to send the data block once for each
SL> individual message. If you are getting hit by spammers that do that, rest
SL> assured that they are newbie script kiddies who will get caught in short order
SL> and most likely never do it again. Those who do it repeatedly, however, will
SL> not do it that way and those are the ones that will spam you multiple times on
SL> different ads.
Steve,
I, sure, am aware that it takes ALOT less resources when BCCing addresses.
However, as I told before, _I_ am getting only ~5% of spam this way. Today,
with leased line, sending 50MB of info is matter of minutes, if not seconds,
therefore this is not and couldn't be a problem. What I've noticed
additionally: spammers are changing their email addresses on the fly, with
each individual mail. It's quite often for me to get few same spams with
interval of few minutes, first of which came from, let's say
[EMAIL PROTECTED], second one from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - note
different numbers. They are surely doing this to make filtering more
difficult. This indirectly confirms my thesis of the progress in their mail
clients and 'preparing' each mail individually.
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Greetz, Arunas Norvaisa - Little Guy, The Masses Inc.
Composed in Kaunas, Lithuania on Friday, September 24, 1999 22:05 +0200
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