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Hi all. There seems to be a bot that is using email addresses harvested from lugnet news. I have attached the headers here (after removing 66 other lego related recipients). Return-Path: <cate@laurencecrew.com> Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Spam using harvested addresses from lugnet
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(...) Hi Dean, Maybe I'm missing something in the heading information here but if you have an MOCpages account using the same address it is a more likely source (MOCpages actually uses full email addresses in links...). Is that a possibility? Tim (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I just noticed that you sign your posts with your name and e-mail address. My guess is that the e-mail is being harvested from there. Lugnet wouldn't be able to do anything about that, as the bot is probably reading the rendered HTML. It might (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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One of the problems I think Lugnet has with spam is that, even if it automatically adds spamcakes to obfuscate lightly the email addresses of people, these addresses are plainly visible when one clicks the "view raw message" option (which renders (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Spam using harvested addresses from lugnet
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(...) Oh yeah, I forgot there was an HTML interface :) (...) Its one of 900 or so I get a day caught by SpamAssassin. This one got through as it was purely a binary and 10K larger than the 200K limit for emails to be virus scanned :) As it was a (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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