RE: Did you guys get a spam email with subject 'Make extra income

From: Jesse Wilson (dont.spam.me_at_clatsopwebdesign.com)
Date: 06/16/03

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    To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:12:08 -0700

    Spammers never go through the effort of personally harvesting e-mail
    addresses. They simply have bots crawling the web picking up e-mail
    addresses off of the different websites.

    If the FreeBSD mailing list is mirrored on the web the e-mail addresses
    need to be salted so that bots can not recognize them as addresses.

    Also, spammers never send the e-mail with a real e-mail address in the
    from line either. Most of the time, most to all of the headers are
    forged. So the name and e-mail address that it was sent from probably
    aren't the same as what the spammer would be subscribed to the FreeBSD
    list with if he actually was subscribed to it anyway.

    My only effective way of blocking spam is to use unique e-mail addresses
    like you were doing with the freebsd@ one and then blocking those unique
    ones once they start getting spam. Once an address starts getting
    nailed it's on spam databases everywhere and so it's done for.

    Jesse

    Message: 1
    Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:48:36 +0300
    From: "PsYxAkIaS (FreeBSD)" <freebsd@psyxakias.com>
    Subject: Did you guys get a spam email with subject 'Make extra income
            from home gnk'
    To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
    Message-ID: <002801c33390$432d8630$0200a8c0@computer>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7"

    Heya,

    i'm using freebsd@psyxakias.com ONLY to this maillist, noone else has
    it.. and i received a spam email from yaydMike Bloggins
    <bthnbloggins@nb.sympatico.ca> to make extra income blabla.

    He's probably member of this maillist or maybe saw our emails at the web
    (the maillist is mirrored on web too. right?)

    I just felt to report it. .Thanks

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