Re: Wonderland waiting list

From: Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Tim Franklin wrote:
>
> Roy/DAYone <roy@dayone.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Congratulations, you've just conemned these poor sods to being spammed for
> >the rest of their lives.
>
> Assuming that address-harvesters are now reading news bodies as opposed to
> headers, for which the empirical evidence is next to nil.

Non-empirical evidence is stronger ;-)
I have used an address that is spam trap solely in the body of a ng
message, and then got spammed (webko@hotmail.com for the spam-lusers
out there...)
The five spammers didn't have accounts for long...

> Assuming also
> that they don't have sufficient clue to make spam wing its way back to the
> sender, or *enjoy* hunting down and terminating spammer accounts.  (Yes, I
> know of some people who do).

Me, me, me :-)
Die spamming bast*rds, die...
>
> Re-posting the entire list of names again didn't really achieve anything
> either, did it?

I noted that as well.
>
> Oh, and I think the Fidonetters are safe.  I'm *utterly* convined that no
> address harvesters are converting z:f/n addresses to .fidonet.org ;)

That would require intelligence Tim... and no spammer has much of that
;-)

Cheers

Webko
Note: Reply address un-munged and valid... do your worst, and then find
you
have no account tomorrow spammers...

References

Re: Wonderland waiting list
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Wonderland waiting list
Massimo Magliolo <max.mag@libero.it>
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Wonderland waiting list
"Roy/DAYone" <roy@dayone.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Wonderland waiting list
tim@leaphome.pelican.org (Tim Franklin)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Wonderland waiting list
Massimo Magliolo <max.mag@libero.it>
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Wonderland waiting list
"Roy/DAYone" <roy@dayone.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000