[107966] in Cypherpunks
Re: Idea to eliminate most spam on mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Sat Jan 30 11:32:55 1999
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:20:45 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
In-Reply-To: <36B2948A.38EE8379@is9.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
At 05:11 AM 1/30/99 +0000, Michael Hohensee wrote:
>
>
>It would, for about 15 seconds, when some enterprising spammer noticed
>this and included it in his spam. Even if the passphrases were
>different for each mailing list, it wouldn't take much to write a
>program which monitors list traffic searching for such patterns, and
>which incorporates said patterns into subsequent spam to that address.
>
Probably not. Most spammers are not looking at individual mailings and
certainly not checking to see if a particular spam made it through a
particular listserver then rewriting it to do so. They are doing a shotgun
approach.
Jay
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