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Re: [SLE] Spambots scanning SLE? Fwd: [Re: AutoReply: Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht]
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:54:49 -0700
- Message-id: <200509032154.49556.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Shriramana,
On Saturday 03 September 2005 21:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Sunday 04 Sep 2005 08:49 samaye Randall R Schulz alekhiit:
> > Such as? For all we know, you're collecting addresses and doing
> > unspeakable things with them, too.
>
> Of course I'm not doing any such thing!
Can you prove it? Casting aspersions could be an attempt to create a
distraction or plausible deniability.
The fact is, there's no way to know which of the thousands of
subscribers to this list might have nefarious intent. Nor could you
trace the diversion of email addresses to the perpetrator.
If you cannot tolerate the acquisition of an email address by spammers,
you have to do two things: 1) Make it an unguessable string of
characters ('cause some spammers just generate email names and send
messages to them without any idea of whether they're actually valid
accounts) and 2) Guard it extremely jealosly. The only way to assure
the latter is not to use it. The more people who receive messages from
that address or otherwise see it, the greater the risk that it will
leak out. You certainly cannot ever use it on a public mailing list, on
Usenet or a bulletin board.
C'est la vie.
> > The only thing to do about spam is dispense with it promptly and
> > with a minimum of effort. My ISP does an excellent job of labelling
> > it via SpamAssassin.
>
> OK I setup SpamAssassin with KMail just now, but does it work with
> IMAP accounts?
How would I know. As I said, my ISP uses it to lable email before I get
it. They have the option of shunting it aside or deleting it
immediately, but I don't like that. There's the rare false positive.
Very rare, of late, but still.
> > reward senders of UCE, it would eventually cease.
>
> UCE?
Unsolicited Commercial Email.
Randall Schulz
On Saturday 03 September 2005 21:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Sunday 04 Sep 2005 08:49 samaye Randall R Schulz alekhiit:
> > Such as? For all we know, you're collecting addresses and doing
> > unspeakable things with them, too.
>
> Of course I'm not doing any such thing!
Can you prove it? Casting aspersions could be an attempt to create a
distraction or plausible deniability.
The fact is, there's no way to know which of the thousands of
subscribers to this list might have nefarious intent. Nor could you
trace the diversion of email addresses to the perpetrator.
If you cannot tolerate the acquisition of an email address by spammers,
you have to do two things: 1) Make it an unguessable string of
characters ('cause some spammers just generate email names and send
messages to them without any idea of whether they're actually valid
accounts) and 2) Guard it extremely jealosly. The only way to assure
the latter is not to use it. The more people who receive messages from
that address or otherwise see it, the greater the risk that it will
leak out. You certainly cannot ever use it on a public mailing list, on
Usenet or a bulletin board.
C'est la vie.
> > The only thing to do about spam is dispense with it promptly and
> > with a minimum of effort. My ISP does an excellent job of labelling
> > it via SpamAssassin.
>
> OK I setup SpamAssassin with KMail just now, but does it work with
> IMAP accounts?
How would I know. As I said, my ISP uses it to lable email before I get
it. They have the option of shunting it aside or deleting it
immediately, but I don't like that. There's the rare false positive.
Very rare, of late, but still.
> > reward senders of UCE, it would eventually cease.
>
> UCE?
Unsolicited Commercial Email.
Randall Schulz
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