RE: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-06 Thread Harkins, Patrick
That's ok. In WHOIS that comes up as a part of the tucows empire located in Bratislava... >-Original Message- >From: Howie Hamlin > > >Sorry - this was supposed to be sent privately and I fat-fingered it. > >Howie Outbound email scanned for viruses. (e232) [Todays Threads] [This Messa

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-06 Thread Howie Hamlin
Sorry - this was supposed to be sent privately and I fat-fingered it. Howie   - Original Message -   From: Howie Hamlin   To: CF-Community   Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:40 AM   Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant    OFF-LIST ***   I just did some research and the last email we

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-06 Thread Howie Hamlin
OFF-LIST *** I just did some research and the last email we got comes from a company in the US.  However, I can't seem to track the linked porn site - www.mintmania.com . It comes up as: [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations an

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2004-10-04 Thread Bill Wheatley
Get ASK its Active Spam Killer its very nice for stopping spam. - Original Message - From: Howie Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:56:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, I'd love that.  I'll dig up so

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Howie Hamlin
Yeah, I'd love that.  I'll dig up some info and send it to you. Thanks, Howie   - Original Message -   From: Jochem van Dieten   To: CF-Community   Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:30 PM   Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant   Howie Hamlin wrote:   > I didn't mean that

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Kevin Graeme
I think the registrars sell the information. I know my cable ISP does. -Kevin On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:41:32 -0400, Duane Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize they cant tell, but either someone at one of those kid friendly > sites is selling email lists or they scraped her email address s

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Howie Hamlin wrote: > I didn't mean that - what I meant was - how could anything be done > about getting us off of a list if they don't know who the recipient is. The idea is not getting you of the list, the idea is to get them in jail. Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription]

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2004-10-01 Thread Paul Vernon
> kid friendly sites is selling email lists or they scraped her email address some how. My mum had a similar experience, her sister-in-laws PC was infected with several trojans and a brand new only used it for a week e-mail address started to receive spam within days of the trojan infection becaus

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Howie Hamlin
I didn't mean that - what I meant was - how could anything be done about getting us off of a list if they don't know who the recipient is. Howie   - Original Message -   From: Jochem van Dieten   To: CF-Community   Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:39 PM   Subject: Re: Porn

RE: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Duane Boudreau
o get off their lists. If I unsubscribe her and she still gets emailed there should be a way to sue them or something. Duane   -Original Message-   From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:14 PM   To: CF-Community   Subject: RE: Porn Spam Rant   Well

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2004-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Howie Hamlin wrote: > I could do that but the thing is - I don't want these people knowing > who the recipient is I'm not that stupid. Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

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2004-10-01 Thread Howie Hamlin
  Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:33 PM   Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant   When it is in the Netherlands you can forward it to me (including all headers) and I'll see what I can do.   Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

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2004-10-01 Thread Duane Boudreau
ED]   Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:34 AM   To: CF-Community   Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant   One other thing.  Her domain (we'll call it young-mistress-boudreau.com)   - is her personal address set up by default as the catch-all account?   Those porn spams might be sent to   "[E

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Howie Hamlin wrote: > > They send the mail with tracking info (Idon't open them but I have > analyzed them).  The web sites appear to be in the Netherlands When it is in the Netherlands you can forward it to me (including all headers) and I'll see what I can do. Jochem [Todays Threads] [This

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2004-10-01 Thread Jim Campbell
One other thing.  Her domain (we'll call it young-mistress-boudreau.com) - is her personal address set up by default as the catch-all account?   Those porn spams might be sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and autorouted to her address be default.  That might be something else you could address.  Hones

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2004-10-01 Thread Jim Campbell
Duane - Try setting up a "whitelist" of email addresses you'll allow her to recieve on your mailserver.  Also, what's she using for a POP/IMAP client?  Most of that spam gets deep-sixed by FireFox, but that wouldn't be necessary with a whitelist, which is virtually impregnable. - Jim Duane Bo

RE: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Jim Davis
Well. the sleazballs, even if they did care, can't tell if it's an adult or child being sent to.  The current mail system just doesn't support any sort of demographic or metrics information in connection with addresses. As for how she's getting it - you can thank the openness of the internet for t

RE: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Duane Boudreau
itten in CF? Thanks, Duane   -Original Message-   From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:34 AM   To: CF-Community   Subject: Re: Porn Spam Rant   I'm in the same boat.  My older daughter (she's 13) and I both get SPAM from the same porn

Re: Porn Spam Rant

2004-10-01 Thread Howie Hamlin
I'm in the same boat.  My older daughter (she's 13) and I both get SPAM from the same pornographers.  I have no idea how they got our addresses... They send the mail with tracking info (Idon't open them but I have analyzed them).  The web sites appear to be in the Netherlands and the sending mail

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2004-10-01 Thread Mike Townend
How about adding a spam filter to the mail server, setting its settings so that pr0n is either deleted or redirected to your/another account? Similar thing's happened to me.. I have a CF'y domain which I used to use for work purposes, but now its fairly unusable due to the amount of crap it gets e