SPAM is definitely a way of life! I helped set up a Win2003 network in Singapore (they got the servers running, I installed and set up software over the internet). They were getting hit by spammers so bad that it was shutting down the hardware firewall. They had to replace the firewall with a bigger unit to handle the additional traffic and still let their regular e-mail come through.
There are some including me that think it has more to do with crippling the internet than anything else. At least the incident in Singapore indicates it's not just the USA that's getting hit. Butch -----Original Message----- From: Charles 'wokka' Goldsmith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:03 PM To: Butch Fralia Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Step Sister Forum - Wind Generators - Political Rally's, etc. It's possible, the archiving software I use does its best to strip out email addresses from the archives: http://texascavers.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm.cgi?mss:2895:200702 But when people reply, sometimes their email program quotes the real address and the software goofs on it and displays it. It's not perfect, but it's the best that I have been able to do. Spam is a way of life these days, there are so many different ways to get people's email addresses. My mail logs on the server show dictionary attacks against every one of my domains, looking for valid email boxes that don't bounce. If enough people asked me to take the archives down or password protect them, then I would, I just haven't taken the time to setup a better system. Butch Fralia wrote: > I think I've answered my own question but since you brought this subject up, > can an e-mail harvesting spider get to the list to harvest e-mail addresses. > Since you don't have to log into anything to get to the archives, it could > be spidered. Fritz Holt just sent me an e-mail about getting a lot of spam > and wondered if it was because he was on the list. I told him he probably > registered for something somewhere that his e-mail address was sold to a > spam list. > > I learned from the Beach-Comber BBS there's a command you can give an Apache > Server that will show all the list servers and list addresses. Whatever it > is they've turned it off because so many lists have been getting spammed. > > Butch > > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.37/682 - Release Date: 2/12/2007 1:23 PM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.37/682 - Release Date: 2/12/2007 1:23 PM
