[abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-14 Thread Jack Campin
I occasionally trawl Google to see where my email address might have got to and find out who is responsible for the 200 spams a day I am now getting. This is a new one that affects everybody here: http://www.mail-archive.com/abcusers@argyll.wisemagic.com/msg04233.html I don't know who those shi

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-14 Thread Toby Rider
They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a list subscriber, you can send majordomo a "who" command, and go through the entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look suspect. Then you can send them an email demanding to know if they are th

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:36:17PM -0700, Toby Rider wrote: > They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a > list subscriber, you can send majordomo a "who" command, and go through the > entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look > su

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:29:43AM +0100, Dave Holland wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#spam does say that email addresses > will be obfuscated when they are present in the archive, but as Jack > noted, it's not always done. I will report that. It appears that the web pages are obfus

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
Dave writes: | On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:36:17PM -0700, Toby Rider wrote: | > They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a | > list subscriber, you can send majordomo a "who" command, and go through the | > entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: > (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form > letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so > most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth > their attention. ;-) Sigh.. I'm so used to spam. You can imagine how much spam

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Starling
Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : I occasionally trawl Google to see where my email address might have : got to and find out who is responsible for the 200 spams a day I am : now getting. This is a new one that affects everybody here: 200 spams? Goodness, that's a lot. Have you consid

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
Toby writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | > (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form | > letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so | > most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth | > their attention. ;-) | | Sigh.. I'm so used to spam. You

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: > Toby writes: > | John Chambers wrote: > | > | > (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form > | > letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so > | > most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth > | > their attention. ;-) > | > |

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
> I apparently am now on my way to earning a PhD in 8 months. Cool! :-) 8 months is far too long for a PhD! I've had many offers of "instant" ones. I'm hanging out for a D Phil. Meanwhile I shall making a fortune stuffing envelopes and taking part in "100% legal" pyramid selling schemes, cancel

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
| John Chambers wrote: | > Toby writes: | > | On the positive side, I've been able to make a million dollars on the | > | stock market, grow the length of my penis several inches, buy cheap real | > | estate in South America, buy male growth hormone, help Nigerians in | > | trouble, and meet sin

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread John Chambers
Laurie writes: | > I apparently am now on my way to earning a PhD in 8 months. Cool! :-) | | 8 months is far too long for a PhD! I've had many offers of "instant" ones. | I'm hanging out for a D Phil. | | Meanwhile I shall making a fortune stuffing envelopes and taking part in | "100% legal" pyra

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Henrik Norbeck
John Chambers wrote: > China. Some people have said that they like to send back messages to > the postmaster thanking him for his support for Falun Gong. This > seems to get people off lists really fast ... So, can we send back spam messages from the US the same way to the postmaster, than

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread John Chambers
Henrik Norbeck writes: | John Chambers wrote: | > China. Some people have said that they like to send back messages to | > the postmaster thanking him for his support for Falun Gong. This | > seems to get people off lists really fast ... | | So, can we send back spam messages from the US the

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: >I wonder if it would be better to send such messages in >Swedish or in English? Arabic? Pushtun? Urdu? Farsi? Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-16 Thread Jack Campin
>> They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a >> list subscriber, you can send majordomo a "who" command, and go through the >> entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look >> suspect. Then you can send them an email demanding to know if they are

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-19 Thread Dave Holland
I wasn't going to contribute again to this off-topic discussion, but I have some news which might be welcome. The mail-archive.com administrator has recently said: | Finally, the more stringent address obfuscation suggest | (i.e. clobbering the domain completely in message bodies) | is (finally)