Has anyone heard of this spam going to anyone other than usenet users? None of my friends have gotten it, nor anyone at my office. Just me. The only "new" thing I have done in the last week or so to cough up my email was post here.
Weird. I have gotten over 100 of these.
Most probably your getting the emails from someone who has the virus AND has you in their mailing list which could be anybody of course.
I have always been leery about posting to Usenet and using my real e-mail address. Phone numbers are another no-no. Recently I saw a phone number posted here as a "For Sale". A following post stated the number was disconnected. I think I know why.
Welles, It's really not that big of a mystery. When you use your actual return address: snipped-for-privacy@speakeasy.net the email harvesters can load up from a single NG and spam everyone in it!
Go into your settings and add a word to your return address: snipped-for-privacy@speakeasy.net and add a note to your signature that tells the humans to remove "NOSPAM" to reply. This will cut down on a lot of your spam.
Good luck!
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It's being spread across the entore internet....we got 40,000 of them today at work.
J
Yikes!, Jamie.
I use (he writes, shrinking a little) Mr. Bill's Outlook Express. I use an anti-spam string in my e-mail address available on usenet. I think the e-mail address is something like, dtodtmanREMOVETHIS@...etc. I am a little leery about the string NOSPAM--If I was writing a bot to collect e-mail addresses, I'd just write a little function to parse that string out of the address. (I don't think "REMOVETHIS" is a whole lot more slick, however.) This and the message rules function in OE have done a pretty good job of blocking most spam,so far. I rather suspect it's just dumb luck or maybe my provider (Shaw.ca) is filtering these buggers out.
I have yet to get these 'mailbomb' messages and would be beside myself if my problem was anywhere near what Ernie or some of the others are experiencing. I hope this post doesn't tip the scale against me.
Ciao, David Todtman
It is nearly impossible to come up with any string in your address which is not too hard for a human to perceive without also being easy for a bot to process. Strings such as >> NoSpam , removethis, _chuck_this_ , and any such up to say
256 of them are easy to wade through by any quality harvester. It just collects these and uses them in its search rules. Not much point in using them if you think this will give you immunity.A. Programmer (assembly)
experiencing.
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