[112443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Thu Feb 26 11:28:21 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:28:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Brian Keefer <chort@smtps.net>
In-Reply-To: <460BAE16-1E14-4D9C-9A1E-2F426128B235@smtps.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> This also pre-dates organized crime becoming heavily involved, and pre-dates
> the obsession with browser exploits. Back then a lot of spam was sent by
> semi-legitimate marketers from the US. These days all the bad guys are out
> to get you to click on a single link.
Right. Back in the 90s spammers were trying to build their lists, and
used fake opt outs to do so. These days through a combination of web
scraping and dictionary attacks, they have more addresses than they know
what to do with.
My advice to people these days is to unsub if a message is from someone
you've corresponded with before, or if it looks like someone who is legit
but clueless. Then hit the spam button.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
