[SATLUG] anti-spam effort

[Geoff]

Robert Pearson wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Charles D Hogan <cd_satl at futuretechsolutions.com> wrote:
>> The problem is not that the spam is going through the list, as the list
>> is moderated, but rather some clever spammer has found a way to harvest
>> our addresses.  Looking at the message archives on satlug.org, it
>> wouldn't be all that difficult to REGEX the "me at here.com" for the
>> sender back to "me at here.com".  Take a look at the html of a handful of
>> messages in the archive, you will see a pattern easy to REGEX for that.
>>   A simple script calling wget, and then running the results through a
>> fairly simple REGEX will get you all the useable addresses that post to
>> the list.
>>
>> The address I use for the mailing list is an alias that has never been
>> used for anything but this list.  Yet it still receives SPAM.  It never
>> received spam while I was just lurking, only after my first post.
>>
>> One way to get around the spammers would be to set up one address that
>> you use to post to the list, and another that you only receive to.  Once
>> your "post from" address is confirmed by the list, quietly drop all mail
>> going to that address into /dev/null. Never use the receive address for
>> sending anything, and make sure that it is not a common word.  I would
>> probably do that, but my spam filters on my mail server, and here at
>> home, are aggressive enough to keep the majority of spam out.  So little
>> of the spam going to my satlug only address makes it through that it
>> would be more of a bother for me to do that than delete the ones I get.
>>   Obviously, this won't work if you still wish to get mail on the
>> address that the vile vermin have already gotten ahold of.
>>
>> The first spam in about a week or 2 that made it to my satlug only
>> address arrived just this evening, so it has not yet made it to the
>> rubbish bin.  I am posting the pertinent headers, and you will notice,
>> it never even hit the satlug server.
>>
>> Charles
>
> Do you use gmail? I use gmail exclusively.
>
> I visit lots of Web sites, I am on several mailing lists, and I am
> having the same type of problem.
>
> I am getting very clever SPAM constructed with words that I have only
> used in posting to a Web site or replying on a mailing list. This
> indicates to me that it is browser and platform based. I normally use
> gmail from one machine. When I use gmail from one of my other machines
> I don't get this. Perhaps there is a bug on my primary machine?
>
> One of the mailing lists was most interesting in the way it happened.
> I receive mail from the JavaMUG.org mailing list. I hardly ever reply
> to these because they are mostly Java job postings.
> There was a flurry of emails from some guy promoting himself, some
> headhunter service or some Java tools. It looked OK, like a normal job
> posting. Normally I delete these unopened due to lack of interest. I
> opened this one.
> I started having problems with that mailing list, and another totally
> different one, shortly after opening that email.
>
> This just started in the last couple of months.


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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR

A: Yes.

> Q: Are you sure?

>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.

>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?