[OT] Harvesters Are Back

... or at least one is.  Someone appears to be, once again, harvesting
email addresses from this group and sending stuff which is trying to
appear to be from other users.

I received an email from 'riplin@azonic.co.nz', with the Subject: Here is
your documents.  Attached was a file, README.zip, which contained a
screen-saver disguised as a .HTM file... such things usually bode no good.

A few moments later I received an email from postingid@dissensoftware.com
which stated 'This address never gets read'; I am assuming that something
got sent there with *my* email address.

Forewarned, forearmed, etc.

DD

docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> ... or at least one is.  Someone appears to be, once again, harvesting
> email addresses from this group and sending stuff which is trying to
> appear to be from other users.
>
> I received an email from 'riplin@azonic.co.nz', with the Subject:
> Here is your documents.  Attached was a file, README.zip, which
> contained a screen-saver disguised as a .HTM file... such things
> usually bode no good.
>
> A few moments later I received an email from
> postingid@dissensoftware.com which stated 'This address never gets
> read'; I am assuming that something got sent there with *my* email
> address.
>
> Forewarned, forearmed, etc.

For amusement, visit the   -news.admin.net-abuse.email-   newsgroup.

Our personas are about as rabid as the hvac newsgroup. You'll discover one
of the blocklists that causes no end of frustration is SPEWS (Spam
Prevention Early Warning System). Their site, www.spews.org, has no email
address, no telephone, no postal address, no fax line, and its servers are
located in Irktusk, Siberia. You don't negotiate with SPEWS - you get on
their list, you're screwed.

In article <11851ltg8bja7b0@news.supernews.com>,
HeyBub <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:

[snip]
 
>
>For amusement, visit the   -news.admin.net-abuse.email-   newsgroup.

I did... for me it got old, fast, just as I'm sure that, for others,
coding in COBOL gets old, fast.

>
>Our personas are about as rabid as the hvac newsgroup.

That's person*ae*, you... you poopie-head, you!

>You'll discover one
>of the blocklists that causes no end of frustration is SPEWS (Spam
>Prevention Early Warning System). Their site, www.spews.org, has no email
>address, no telephone, no postal address, no fax line, and its servers are
>located in Irktusk, Siberia. You don't negotiate with SPEWS - you get on
>their list, you're screwed.

I'm familiar with it... essentially 'do it our way or your traffic doesn't
get through'.

There are advantages and divantages to such a system.

DD