-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:15:30AM -0500, Chris Hardie wrote:
>Hi folks. I've recently been seeing a marked increase in the number of >spam messages that spammers are confirming. [...] I haven't had spam messages confirmed, but I've gotten a lot of auto-responses themselves confirmed. What happens is: 1. spammer forges my name on a spam to some helpdesk or something. 2. the helpdesk automatically replies to the spam (to me) 3. TMDA replies to the helpdesk with a challenge 4. the helpdesk autoreplies to the confirmation request 5. the message sent at step 2 arrives in my inbox. I saw the number of these increase dramatically about a month ago. Maybe some spammers have a list of addresses which auto-reply in the fasion above. They're spamming you with mail forged from those addresses. If that's the case, I wonder if the broken auto-responders will fix themselves (thus lowering their utility to the spammers so that the spammers stop using them). - -- Kyle Hasselbacher | A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to make one believe in God. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFArM8H10sofiqUxIQRAkSZAKDal1WspUgvdXndGdMfUENqs/zNMQCfbgui um9Mi7PZEM6Cvxb/omyJpbs= =QplO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
