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Re: spam from this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Wed Nov 20 20:20:11 1996
From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:17:46 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199611210108.RAA08075@jklaren.qualcomm.com> from "Jon Klaren" at Nov 20, 96 05:08:26 pm
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Jon Klaren wrote:
> I have been receiving more and more unsolicited email lately. And I'm
> trying to figure out why.
You too eh?
> Is some spammer's robot gleaning email
> addresses from the mail list archives on www.redhat.com?
That's my guess.
> Just to see, has anyone else on this list received spam lately from
> Emerald@earthstar aka emeraldette@pop.a001.sprintmail.com
> autumn@industry.net aka autumn@gtwinc.com
Got it from these two.
> If so, that would make it a little more likely that this list was the
> source for the spammer's collection of names.
Yep. I don't participate in newsgroups, so I'm guessing they're using
some sort of spambot to get names from this list.
> I know how to use procmail to filter this stuff out, but it's hard (and
> annoying) to keep the filter up to date with every bogus sender and
> subject line they invent.
>
I'm going to start using procmail to filter on the SMTP headers, starting
with "interramp.com".
Bill
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