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Re: Spam using harvested addresses from lugnet
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Tue, 29 May 2007 21:49:44 GMT
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Elroy Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Dean Earley wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > There seems to be a bot that is using email addresses harvested from
> > lugnet news.
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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.
Oh yeah, I forgot there was an HTML interface :)
> It might not reduce your current spam, as the address is already posted, but if
> you don't include your e-mail address in your signature, it should keep bots
> from finding your address in future posts.
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 virus, it is far more likely these were from someone's
outlook express address book.
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Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk)
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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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