[112445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Feb 26 12:05:42 2009
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902261626110.84574@simone.iecc.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:05:26 +0100
From: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> 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.
Of course, the browsploit issue means that clicking on ANY links in dubious
e-mail is highly unwise.
