16 Dec
2019
16 Dec
'19
2:18 p.m.
It may be that my address got into the local address book of a contaminated
system but stopping this net for several weeks brought
the spam and trash mail from 25-80 a day to zero near instantly (less than
12 hours.). I've bailed from the list in the past for periods
for the same reason. I cannot filter the spam due to multiple reasons.
Its not bizarre as people do want valid addresses for scams and
legit offers for crap I do not want.
It is my belief that we have a user that is farming the list and getting
though spam filters.
If you do not. then great. I've been active here for a very long time
(since I was on WSTD.COM).
It has been a persistent problem that always starts small and grows quickly
and then I start filtering
till I'm killing good mail.
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 4:23 PM Peter Coghlan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Allison wrote:
I believe there is a someone or something that is subscribed to the list
and scrape it for active
names. and emails. I have no idea what the specific how it is done but
it
is a trivial coding
task to extract emails for sale as known active. It was not coming
though
the list but from
bots most likely and used list members names to obscure being
spam/uce//malware.
IT would nto take much to create a subscription and have that go to some
automation
to capture information. The question is how many listen only members are
there that
have never ever posted a comment?
That is bizarre. I've used the address used to post this message only for
this mailing list for donkeys years now and it has received very close to
zero spam. The most recent spam I received arrived on 24th May 2019.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan