[OT] Spam Attractor
Hi ILUG members,
What is the best way to publicize an email address in order to attract the
maximum amount of spam?
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Re: [OT] Spam Attractor
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi ILUG members, What is the best way to publicize an email address in order to attract the maximum amount of spam? Regards, Place it on a website, send a message from that address to Usenet, it will take a short while for it to be picked up but you are guaranteed full success and lots of spam. It worked for me without even trying hard. You may also want to search for mail honeypot. Baruch = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti
Hi, The person behind these Israeli spams is Gil Dayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Nitzan HR (09-7671788). Use this e-mail or phone number to remove an address or domain from his list. If you want to cost them some money, use this fax number instead: 09-7671787. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- You'll feel devilish tonight. Toss dynamite caps under a flamenco dancer's heel. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti
I think we all should complain infront of the ISP about this spam I already forwarded this mail to spamcop -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -- - Original Message - From: Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:21 PM Subject: [OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti Hi, The person behind these Israeli spams is Gil Dayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Nitzan HR (09-7671788). Use this e-mail or phone number to remove an address or domain from his list. If you want to cost them some money, use this fax number instead: 09-7671787. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- You'll feel devilish tonight. Toss dynamite caps under a flamenco dancer's heel. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti
I complained to both 012 (where the mail came from) and BezeqInt (where they host their site which serves the images). -- Arik -Original Message- From: Ben-Nes Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:08 PM To: Alon Altman; Linux-IL Subject: Re: [OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti I think we all should complain infront of the ISP about this spam I already forwarded this mail to spamcop -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -- - Original Message - From: Alon Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:21 PM Subject: [OT] SPAM: Hakupon shel Hamdina / Ha'Luach Hainterneti Hi, The person behind these Israeli spams is Gil Dayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Nitzan HR (09-7671788). Use this e-mail or phone number to remove an address or domain from his list. If you want to cost them some money, use this fax number instead: 09-7671787. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- You'll feel devilish tonight. Toss dynamite caps under a flamenco dancer's heel. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** This email and attachments have been scanned for potential proprietary or sensitive information leakage. PortAuthority(TM) Server Keeping Information Inside Vidius, Inc. www.vidius.com ** To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
Shachar Shemesh wrote: In any case, we can check that out. Evgeny, can you please manually change one of my email addresses in the archive on plasma-gate to something else (I'm emailing it to you in private). ?? All email addresses in the archives are automatically converted to someone(at-nospam)somewhere (see e.g. http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/03/11/msg00800.html), so I don't think it's been harvested; not directly, at least. Regards, Evgeny = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: [OT?] SPAM: The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are the web archives. You might be surprised, but in addition to what you said, spammers actually *do* try to subscribe to mailing list and find addresses of active subscribers. In fact I think it's what they're after, because I never saw a spammer actually posting to a mailing list after subscribing. How do they know which mailing lists to subscribe to? The spammers I saw simply asked the majordomo account of an arbitrary computer for a list of mailing lists it carries, and then for each of those it subscribed, and also asked for the subscriber list. Many Majordomo servers are configured to allow these actions. Similar issues might exist on other mailing list servers as well, but I didn't personally see them. -- Nadav Har'El| Saturday, Nov 29 2003, 5 Kislev 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous? A http://nadav.harel.org.il |canary with the super-user password. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: [OT?] SPAM: The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are the web archives. You might be surprised, but in addition to what you said, spammers actually *do* try to subscribe to mailing list and find addresses of active subscribers. In fact I think it's what they're after, because I never saw a spammer actually posting to a mailing list after subscribing. How do they know which mailing lists to subscribe to? The spammers I saw simply asked the majordomo account of an arbitrary computer for a list of mailing lists it carries, and then for each of those it subscribed, and also asked for the subscriber list. Many Majordomo servers are configured to allow these actions. Similar issues might exist on other mailing list servers as well, but I didn't personally see them. Maybe you are right about major-domo. I have not exeprienced the thing myself, partially due to the fact that I use mostly ezmlm for my mailing lists, and they don't have a mailing list server. They also don't support sending out the subscriber's list out of the box. In any case, we can check that out. Evgeny, can you please manually change one of my email addresses in the archive on plasma-gate to something else (I'm emailing it to you in private). We'll see whether that is, indeed, the case. Also, I'll note that I just searched my spam folder. I got 1 email (over the period the folder covers) for my linux-il address. I am also subscribed to the wine-devel mailing list. At some point they introduced spam-protection on the web archives. At some point, I changed my email address. I can try and see what happened first. The new address, however, is there since april (which means I was on the list about equal time with the new and the old addresses). In any case, I got 8 spams to my new address, and 66 spams to my old address. My spam folder was deleted about a month ago, so this can't be attributed to old spams received before the change of email. In short, while I'm sure you are right, Nadav, this does not seem to be the main thing to spammer's address harvesting. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consulting Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ The opinions expressed in this mail are my own, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. Wait! I am self employed! Hmm... = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
Amichai Rotman wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2003 20:49, Kfir Lavi wrote: When you post to a public list, the spammers will see your email and ... Could we install a filter on the IGLU site / mail server / Plone to convert all e-mail addresses to someone at somewhere (like they do on Slashdot... It might be too late for whoever´s on the list, but... The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are the web archives. At least the one on Hamakor's servers does that already (http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/) Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consulting Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ The opinions expressed in this mail are my own, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. Wait! I am self employed! Hmm... = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 20:49, Kfir Lavi wrote: When you post to a public list, the spammers will see your email and ... Could we install a filter on the IGLU site / mail server / Plone to convert all e-mail addresses to someone at somewhere (like they do on Slashdot... It might be too late for whoevers on the list, but... Amichai. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:08:51PM +0200, Shachar Tal wrote: Out of the box it does excellent job when it comes to form and format classification (HTML, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), but without training it to *your* ham and spam, it's not too good. How well does SpamAssasin deal with Hebrew mail? E.g: A Hebrew subject is often treated as yelling. Maybe bacause it is quoted-printable? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:08:51PM +0200, Shachar Tal wrote: Out of the box it does excellent job when it comes to form and format classification (HTML, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), but without training it to *your* ham and spam, it's not too good. How well does SpamAssasin deal with Hebrew mail? E.g: A Hebrew subject is often treated as yelling. Maybe bacause it is quoted-printable? I do not receive much Hebrew mail, and anyway most of it is spam from various companies. Family and friends occasionally send me Hewbew mail, but when they do, SA treat their email address virtually as white-listed, since all mail messages from those addresses is taught to be ham. Shachar. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT?] SPAM
Hi All, I am too tiered of getting more and more SPAM by e-mail. is there some DB I can submit my e-mail address to, and it will unsubscribe me from all known SPAMers? I know this could work the other way, but even after I disabled coockies and am willing to live with the constant nag of the sites, I am creating more and more filters for what seems to be th e same sh*t !! Any ideas / websites / tools / RTFMs...? Thanks, The mighty frustrated, Amichai. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Amichai Rotman wrote: Hi All, I am too tiered of getting more and more SPAM by e-mail. is there some DB I can submit my e-mail address to, and it will unsubscribe me from all known SPAMers? I know this could work the other way, but even after I disabled coockies and am willing to live with the constant nag of the sites, I am creating more and more filters for what seems to be th e same sh*t !! Any ideas / websites / tools / RTFMs...? Thanks, The mighty frustrated, Amichai. I think this is a good time to mention that in the first regular Haifux lecture of the season, Aviram Jenik will talk about SPAM. The lecture will take place on Monday 15/12/2003, in Taub 3 (floor 1), Technion. Orna. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
I use SpamAssassin for blocking spam, with much success. I get less than 1 spam a week, with about 200 spam blocked daily and 200 legitimate messages received correctly. I use Mozilla and it has a spam filter, until now it works fine, but i get ~5 spam mails a day. AFAIK SpamAssassin is the best way to treat the problem. I think you can turn on your cookies, i don't think this is your problem. When you post to a public list, the spammers will see your email and ... Regards, Kfir Lavi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
Yuval Aviel wrote: Shachar, I also use spamassassin, but the success rate is much lower. Maybe you can share your .spamassassin/user_prefs with us? This is my user_prefs: required_hits3 That's it. Oh, and I trained SA with a ~16000 message corpus, ~2000 of which were ham, ~14000 were spam. You *did* train it, didn't you? Out of the box it does excellent job when it comes to form and format classification (HTML, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.), but without training it to *your* ham and spam, it's not too good. man sa-learn is your friend :) Shachar. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telux Wine lecture (was Re: [OT?] SPAM)
Orna Agmon wrote: I think this is a good time to mention that in the first regular Haifux lecture of the season, Aviram Jenik will talk about SPAM. The lecture will take place on Monday 15/12/2003, in Taub 3 (floor 1), Technion. Orna. Ok, I'll take the free associations one step forward. Next Sunday (30/11), I'll be giving a lecture about Wine in Telux (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/). The Telux advanced lectures ahead are: 14/12 - PHP, Lior Kaplan 28/12 - The advantages of teaching people to hack, Aviram Jenik 11/1 - Embedded Linux, Gilad Ben-Yossef Some of these lectures bear similar names to lectures given in the past at Haifux. However, you will find the quality of a good lecture is that it improves over time. So, if you are interested in hearing these lectures, please feel free to drop at the Tel Aviv University next Sunday (and every other Sunday after that one). 6:30pm. Shreiber building. More importantly, if you want to give a lecture, please either mail the address on the site, or subscribe to the telux mailing list - send empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consulting Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telux Wine lecture (was Re: [OT?] SPAM)
Are there slides in English published anywhere? behdad On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orna Agmon wrote: I think this is a good time to mention that in the first regular Haifux lecture of the season, Aviram Jenik will talk about SPAM. The lecture will take place on Monday 15/12/2003, in Taub 3 (floor 1), Technion. Orna. Ok, I'll take the free associations one step forward. Next Sunday (30/11), I'll be giving a lecture about Wine in Telux (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/). The Telux advanced lectures ahead are: 14/12 - PHP, Lior Kaplan 28/12 - The advantages of teaching people to hack, Aviram Jenik 11/1 - Embedded Linux, Gilad Ben-Yossef Some of these lectures bear similar names to lectures given in the past at Haifux. However, you will find the quality of a good lecture is that it improves over time. So, if you are interested in hearing these lectures, please feel free to drop at the Tel Aviv University next Sunday (and every other Sunday after that one). 6:30pm. Shreiber building. More importantly, if you want to give a lecture, please either mail the address on the site, or subscribe to the telux mailing list - send empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telux Wine lecture (was Re: [OT?] SPAM)
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 23:23, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: Are there slides in English published anywhere? What?! You mean prepare the slides more than 24 hours before the lecture? That would break the tradition. The slides will probably be available after the lectures, at: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ (click on advanced lectures on the right menu and you'll get an English page with the lecture date time and links to the slides). Of course, the only lecture slides there are from past lectures (except for Lior's PHP2 lecture, but I'm sure he's got a good explanation for that). behdad - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?] SPAM
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 20:19, Orna Agmon wrote: I think this is a good time to mention that in the first regular Haifux lecture of the season, Aviram Jenik will talk about SPAM. The lecture will take place on Monday 15/12/2003, in Taub 3 (floor 1), Technion. And at the risk of sounding like a slim fast commercial, the lecture will explain how I was able to get from over 1,000(!) spam messages a day to around 5 a day in my inbox today (and all this time I almost never felt hungry). - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telux Wine lecture (was Re: [OT?] SPAM)
What language are these lectures in??? Thanks Aaron On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 22:10, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Orna Agmon wrote: I think this is a good time to mention that in the first regular Haifux lecture of the season, Aviram Jenik will talk about SPAM. The lecture will take place on Monday 15/12/2003, in Taub 3 (floor 1), Technion. Orna. Ok, I'll take the free associations one step forward. Next Sunday (30/11), I'll be giving a lecture about Wine in Telux (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/). The Telux advanced lectures ahead are: 14/12 - PHP, Lior Kaplan 28/12 - The advantages of teaching people to hack, Aviram Jenik 11/1 - Embedded Linux, Gilad Ben-Yossef Some of these lectures bear similar names to lectures given in the past at Haifux. However, you will find the quality of a good lecture is that it improves over time. So, if you are interested in hearing these lectures, please feel free to drop at the Tel Aviv University next Sunday (and every other Sunday after that one). 6:30pm. Shreiber building. More importantly, if you want to give a lecture, please either mail the address on the site, or subscribe to the telux mailing list - send empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telux Wine lecture (was Re: [OT?] SPAM)
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Aaron wrote: What language are these lectures in??? Haifux lectures are in Hebrew, though the slides may be in English. I believe Telux lectures behave similarly. Orna. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
