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Re: [OT] Massive spam increase recently?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [OT] Massive spam increase recently?
  • From: "patricklidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:21:38 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Vince Goddard" <groups@t...> wrote:
> > Me to
> > And I'm convinced it is coming via Yahoo giving out our addresses
> > mike
>
> Sorry I can't agree with this!
>
> I subscribe to many Yahoo groups and have done for years and I get
no spam
> to the address I use for the groups.
>
> Now my work address is different, on this I get 20 -30 spams per
day but
> then the account is over six years old and I have used it to
regsiter lots
> of domain names.

I found this report, which analyses the various sources of SPAM
fascinating. It seems to tally well with my own experiences.
Overriding advice seems to be: obfuscate those e-mail addresses on
web sites, avoid using address that are susceptible to dictionary
based attacks and never include a valid e-mail address in a newsgroup
message header.

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

Patrick





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