Re: Dealing with Spam and other canned meats

From: Steve Phariss <sphariss_at_libertywebworks.com>
Date: Fri 02 Aug 2002 17:07:47 -0500

I have to take exception to the "AdBumb". I constantly recieve spam
on an account that I have NEVER used for anything but personal email
(one on one conversations, selecte few email lists, NO USENET or
other requests for email addy, NO Porn). a majority of it is get
rich quick schemes and Porn.
The spam I usually recieve on this email is addressed to a laundry
list of domains and users (the user name is a common one steve_at_xxxxxx.
com).
The one redeeming thing about most of THIS spam is that the filters
in Spamassassin are able to cull it about 95%. The only thing I
can figgure is that some spamming worm got the domain from the whois
database and did some data mining to find a probably user name.
The entire To: and CC: list included all domains in alphabetical
order, two or three common user names each (like steve, laura, info,
webmaster, first initial last name).

I also did an experiment with a throw away email account involving
unsubbing, the result was a failure. not only did most of the unsubs
not work, but the vollume of spam went up to the point that I had
to shut down the account. (this was with no filtering, only using
the methods in the spam with a bit of common sence). I might try
again with a different approach:

on the throwaway account get one spam and try to unsub keep track
of how much the spam goes up....hmmmmmm

Actually I have found the Yahoo email account to not pickup too much
spam on it's own. most of the spam I recieve on Yahoo is from my
own doing (list signups, website registrations, NO Porn).

Steve Phariss



Received on Fri Aug 02 2002 - 17:07:47 CDT