Chris, Your old homey Mike suggests that cocoa-dev could use a little TLC.
Mike On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Michael David Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Internet Crime Complaint Center > > http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx > > The CERT Division > > http://www.cert.org/ > > Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems > > http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/ > > I once used one-time emails to great effect. Unfortunately my hosting > service configured my mail to accept any username, commonly but incorrectly > known as a "postmaster" account. I once received 400 MB of spam per day! > > I strongly recommend one-time emails but dont make them obvious. Use > common given names, but not your own name. Onfigure your mail server to > accept each one you actually use. When the spam gets you down, unsubscribe > from the list, configure a new one-time email, resubscribe. Keep the > now-unused mail user for a while but mark everything as spam. When you > grow weary of doing so delete the username. > > Gmail does work but it is impolite to draw so heavily on a free as in beer > resource. If you like Gmail, Google offers a paid service that will > mailhost your own domain. > > Javascript email obfuscation is effective because the bots dont even try > to crack it: > > http://www.warplife.com/moat/alligators.js > > For extra credit, design your own custom software. > > If you desire only the very best: > > Set up an apparently legitimate site with some innocuous content that > appears to belong to a real business. Provide a sitemap: > > http://www.sitemaps.org/ > > Put your sitemap's URL in your robots.txt: > > http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html > > supply a permissive one: > > User-agent: * > Disallow: > > Sitemap: http://www.example.com/urllist.txt.gz > > ... or... > > Sitemap-index: http://www.example.com/sitemap-index.xml.gz > > ... the sitemap index points to urllist.txt.gz but contains a timestamp > that reduces everyone's load. > > Plaster that site with lots of apparently-legitimate email addies. > > Submit your homepage URL: > > Painless Search Engine Site Submission > http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/site-submission.html > > ... wait until the spam gets REALLY out of control then install a > Teergrube: > > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/teergrube.html > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) > > Onw simple way is that when a spammer tries to deliver mail to your smtp > server you start to cooperate but then pause until just before the timeout, > then issue a continuation character: > > - > > .. then pause again. > > But do _eventually_ accept the mail, that way the spammer wont receive a > bounce. > > A few hours after each spam arrives, use cURL or wget to fetch each of its > images. That's how spammers know that you like to read spam. Also "click" > some of their links. > > The Coup d' Gras is to drop this domain's emails into a bunch of > "newsletter" subscription forms. > > I'll Send You My Bill In The Mail. > > Mike > mdcrawf...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mdcrawf...@gmail.com');> > > > > -- > Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer > mdcrawf...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mdcrawf...@gmail.com');> > http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ > > Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future > Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past. > > -- Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
