On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > >Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't been on > >usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer subscribed to the > >lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody else with the same problem? > > I've been spammed like crazy after going on Usenet on an unprotected > account. By that I mean, that I had my e-mail address in the "From:" and > "Reply-to:" fields. To go around this you can put a blank space (leandro > @ifront.com for example).
I don't like to do that. It makes it inconvenient for people to reply. Besides, name mangling (paulwadeATgreenbushDOTcom) is a form of surrender to the abusers. I use traceroute and then abuse.net to file complaints. > Perhaps we could have that the mail program checks the domain from where the > mail is coming from, and if the domain is invalid it rejects the mail. That gets complicated because many people are at the mercy of a technically challenged ISP. It would be great if everyone could get a static IP with DNS. Besides, anybody can subscribe to the list and never post a thing. Then they just extract addresses from the messages that pass through. A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message and removes it before remailing would be nice. Another spam generator is people using my domain names in false addresses on usenet. I would need a program that scans 19000 newsgroups for domain names in order to catch these people. They usually do this in the porno groups and the email volume is high as a result. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .