I've been getting spam almost since I signed up
Annoying that an anti spam group could not have avoided this problem.
I assumed the email address was scraped from the archives
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On Behalf Of Brett
Watson
Sent: 25 February 2004 6:05 PM
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: [Asrg] Re: 1c. Analysis of Spam - casual observations from my
log files
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:48, Brett Watson wrote:
The first and foremost reason that these spam attempts have failed is
because they fail to recognise the "dash" characters as part of
the email
address, and thus send to "asrg(_at_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)" rather than
"famous-asrg(_at_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)". This
Of course, no sooner do I send the message, than I receive actual
spam to my
actual asrg address. Looks like it came through a cable modem account in
Israel. Selected headers follow.
Return-Path: <doiqngxol(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
Received: from [80.230.181.208] (helo=cable-181-208.inter.net.il)
by randall.nutters.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 1AvsBv-00014F-00
for <famous-asrg(_at_)nutters(_dot_)org>; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:06:44
+0000
Message-ID: <NMMKCQHRSTAMWELOSEIB(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
From: "Dixie Koch" <doiqngxol(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com>
To: famous-asrg(_at_)nutters(_dot_)org
Subject: Buy watches lennox
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:06:48 -0700
So, was this a more intelligent instance of web-scraping, or is our dear
spammer obtaining addresses via direct subscription to the list?
Regards,
TFBW
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