[olug] Argh... SPAM

[Tim - DZ]

I've actually started getting spam on my internet enable (PCS vision) cell
phone.

I mean, _of_course_ I would a supermodel-like body, and would love to
achieve that figure in a matter of days by taking one convenient pill....

...but I'd just assume that it didn't interrupt my encryption class at UNO.
:-)

Besides spidering for valid addresses listed on the web somewhere, I think
that sheer volume is starting to work....send email to millions of randomly
generated names...if you happen to get a read receipt, out of office
response, opt out reply, etc...put that address in the "spam more often"
pile, and continue to generate more addresses to put in front of all the
domains you pulled from whois or arin or whatever.

-t 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Terry
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:56 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Argh... SPAM

I don't get spam on my personal account.  I use yahoo
for my mailing lists and I get spam there but their
anti-spam tool(s) work rather well.  I guess if you
don't publish your email address on the Internet or
use it to buy anything, you won't get spam.  Anyone
else have decent luck?

--- Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:50, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > Is it just me or has spam become really obnoxious
> lately? I've been
> > training spamassassin regulary, but it never seems
> to do much good. Is
> > there anything more I can do to improve my
> filters, or are spammers just
> > too nefarious for SA?
> 
> Yes, it has gotten worse recently.  The smart
> spammers are catching up with 
> the filters, and the dumb ones are just sending more
> messages.   We're 
> running SpamAssassin/MimeDefang for a 2000 user
> server at work, and it's 
> become a real chore.   The mis-spellings, fragmented
> html, and social 
> engineering (Your email account will be deleted if
> you don't click here!) 
> have been especially bad in the last two weeks.   
> I've come to the conclusion that spammers are like
> cockroaches,  impossible to 
> eradicate.  The best we can hope for is to keep them
> out of the kitchen.
> 
> Dave Thacker
> 
> 
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Terry

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