So, bottom line is this list may have been derived from several sites and not just a small handful.
I do not believe anyone is blaming GTA for this, certainly not I. I appreciate everything GTA does to support it users and would hate to see that change. My intent was simply to warn everyone of what I expected would be a sudden surge of SPAM influx. My assumption was correct (here). Over the past 3 days, we got well over 150 SPAM, with over 500 attempts made that failed because of firewall blocks. If GTA ever wants to provide a very useful feature to their user base, they could provide (as a courtesy) their own version of a "black list". This would allow us, the users to say (in part) who is blocked. It is just a thought, one I ask the group to avoid commenting on. I think we have rallied on this message string enough. Many thanks to all involved, Danny -----Original Message----- From: david raistrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:59 PM To: David Morris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gb-users] SPAM email exploiting mail services On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, David Morris wrote: > David, I would be interested in learning what the intersection is between > the list of emails Danny found and the subscription list (better the First a bit of information, then I'll list the statistics. There are two web-accessable copies of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list archives that I know of. http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ contains messages dating from Feb. 1999 to July 2001. Email adddresses may be found here in either the From: line or in the message body/signature of each message. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] contains the last 1000 messages to the mailing list, updated between every few minutes to every few hours, depending on load. Email addresses may be found here only in the message body/signature. I've been working on a new searchable automaticly updated version of the archives that will contain Feb 1999 through current. I've been working on it as time permits. I don't have a release date at this time. The final version will attempt to obfuscate any and all email addresses contained in message headers and message bodies, which should help to prevent addresses in messages sent to gb-users from being found by web crawlers. Now for some statistics: Of the 796 addresses listed in the email from Danny, 33 are also currently subscribed to gb-user, gb-users-digest, or gb-users-allow. Of these 33, 10 of the addresses are available via the July 2001 and back copy of the archives contained at http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/, according to "I Of these 33, 27 are available via Google gnatbox.com archive. Of these 33, 14 are available via Google mail-archive.com archive. Back to the original list of 796 addresses: 44 of these addresses can be found in the gnatbox.com archive. 14 are found in the mail-archive.com archive. ...david -- David Raistrick Systems Administrator - Global Technology Associates, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are the opinions of David Raistrick, not necessarily those of GTA, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
