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Subject: 
Possible crawler-bot alert?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:59:20 GMT
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   Hi,

   I just wanted to ask if there's any evidence we've been visited by
   a spambot lately--suddenly there's been an enormous spike in spam
   (two or three a day, up from one every six months) to my .msu.edu
   account, which I *only* use to post here and have a forwarding
   set from.  It's possible that it could be an odd mailing-list sale,
   but because my address hasn't been responsive it's much more likely
   that something is out there farming email addresses.

   Is this possible, or are there measures in place to prevent this?
   Have others been noticing a problem, especially as concerns debt-
   reduction and cell-phone ads?  I do recall Todd having said something
   about ways that LUGNET's setup prevents webcrawlers from farming
   here.

   many thanks,

   LFB

   Xpost -> .admin.general, followups not yet set



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
 
Mr L F Braun wrote in message ... (...) I've been getting lots and lots of debt0reduction spams but not much in the way of cell-phones. Also lots of asian-language spam, but I blame that on our (VLC's) and my appeareance in a chinese-language (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
 
I would say I am having this problem also. I don't know the content of the ads as I tend to just delete them on sight. Maybe I am wrong about where the leak in my information is coming from, but what caught my eye is my FULL name in some of the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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