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Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:34:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
Are you still getting the Edventures mail? Because they seem to have gone
more places than just LUGNET, I was getting their spam at all of the
BricksWest addresses (which I don't use to post anywhere, though they may be
mentioned in the body of posts). My spam has been way up lately too, but
then I still post to several Usenet groups...
> 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.
I've never seen any correlation between LUGNET and my Personal SPAM
Quotient™...I'm fairly sure that we are secure from bots, but not the odd
determined True Life Person™ who is willing to sift through the posts and
copy-paste addys...
Matt
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| "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:Gqtw8r.KzB@lugnet.com... (...) be (...) I used to get their spam, and I forget if I added a filter against them or if I finally bugged them enough to remove me. Its pretty sad when a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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