Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Keefer
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:37 AM, Michienne Dixon wrote: I too think C-R spam 'prevention' is the lazy-mans approach at filtering spam. People can easily create their own whitelists based on their maillogs or mailhistory. Unfortunately, I feel the majority of the solutions offered cater to the

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:57 EDT, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" said: > I don't have any argument with making the end-user's experience simpler > and easier. I do complain when that simplification is at the expense > of others. It's the difference between software that does some of your > work and software

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-09 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:37:51 -0500 "Michienne Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I too think C-R spam 'prevention' is the lazy-mans approach at filtering > spam. People can easily create their own whitelists based on their > maillogs or mailhistory. > > > Unfortunately, I feel the majority of

RE: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-09 Thread Michienne Dixon
I too think C-R spam 'prevention' is the lazy-mans approach at filtering spam. People can easily create their own whitelists based on their maillogs or mailhistory. Unfortunately, I feel the majority of the solutions offered cater to the non-technical. The process of simplifying often results i

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting D'Arcy J.M. Cain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Personally I think that the answer to this problem is to simply reply > automatically to these challenges positively no matter what. Puts the > job of filtering spam back on the first person. I tend to click on the 'authorize' links i see in any ti

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-08 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:21:22 -0400 Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This doesn't look to me like phishing (although I can see the > similarities); it looks like yet another severely clueless site engaged > in challenge-response spamming. (C-R has long since been not only > completely discr

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-08 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > To prove that your message was sent by a human and not a computer, please > visit the URL below and type in the alphanumeric text you will see in the > image. You will be asked to do this only once for this recipient. This does

RE: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-07 Thread Fred Moses
: Howard C. Berkowitz Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Some odd harvesting going on? I received the same message Subject : Challenge Response

Re: Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I received the same message Subject : Challenge Response Received: from mail.tcwireless.us ([67.108.86.20] verified) Your message ... has been just received by gmail.com mailserver. I assumed that this is a phishing scam due to the from / mailserver mismatch, which I think this confirms.

Some odd harvesting going on?

2008-10-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
I just received the following: Your message From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: RE: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattacksystem(Einstein 3.0) Date: 10/7/2008 has been just received by nanog.org mailserver. To prove that your message