14 Apr
1998
14 Apr
'98
4:05 a.m.
This is new. Just brought the uVAX up again. I sent ONE message to Usenet
mentioning the address.
I now made it to some luser's spam list!
This is the new thing...
The spam appears to be in Japanese?
I guess this will be the first spammer I mail that can UNDERSTAND what they're
being mailed! (A-CNH)
The question is, just out of curiosity, when did Usenet deteriorate to the
point that spamming started?
Was it around the time AOL let people on Internet? :)
(J/k!)
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14 Apr
14 Apr
5:22 a.m.
At 06:05 14-04-98 -0700, you wrote:
This is new. Just brought the uVAX up again. I sent
ONE message to Usenet
mentioning the address.
I now made it to some luser's spam list!
<snip>
The question is, just out of curiosity, when did Usenet
deteriorate to the
point that spamming started?
Uhhhh... where have you been? ;-)
The spam problem on Usenet has been going on for at least the last three
years. It happened shortly after NSF lifted the ban on commercial traffic
and the 'net became better known to the public. Sure enough, a bunch of
marketeers with more greed than brains saw Usenet as a vast new territory
instead of what it was intended to be.
The spam started. It has been throttled back to a degree, thanks largely
to the efforts of the anti-spam crowd (consisting mainly of sysadmins), but
it is still there.
Best advice I can give for posting to Usenet is to put a munged address in
the 'From' and 'Reply-To' fields. One of my faves is
'SpamTrap(a)[127.0.0.1]'
Then, put your real address as a phrase in the text body of the message,
along with some special characters inserted. Example:
kyr{rin} a-t j[p]s <d>ot n=e=t
Perfectly readable to a human, gibberish to a spam-bot (those nasty little
cyber-bugs that crawl around the newsgroups harvesting addresses).
Was it around the time AOL let people on Internet? :)
Actually, the AOL crowd is more often chosen as a target than the
experienced folk.
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9:03 a.m.
[Where have I been?]
Here. I am a sysadmin, and I know all about spam and what to do about it...
:)
I was just curious when it started.
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9:24 a.m.
New subject: First Spam (Re: This is new...)
Ah, here it is. It wasn't that long ago:
From: nike(a)indirect.com (Laurence Canter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,ott.general
Subject: Green Card Lottery- Final One?
Date: 12 Apr 1994 08:00:55 GMT
Green Card Lottery 1994 May Be The Last One! THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN
ANNOUNCED.
The Green Card Lottery is a completely legal program giving away a
certain annual allotment of Green Cards to persons born in certain
countries. The lottery program was scheduled to continue on a
permanent basis. However, recently, Senator Alan J Simpson introduced
a bill into the U. S. Congress which could end any future lotteries.
THE 1994 LOTTERY IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE SOON, BUT IT MAY BE THE
VERY LAST ONE.
PERSONS BORN IN MOST COUNTRIES QUALIFY, MANY FOR FIRST TIME.
The only countries NOT qualifying are: Mexico; India; P.R. China;
Taiwan, Philippines, North Korea, Canada, United Kingdom (except
Northern Ireland), Jamaica, Domican Republic, El Salvador and Vietnam.
Lottery registration will take place soon. 55,000 Green Cards will be
given to those who register correctly. NO JOB IS REQUIRED.
THERE IS A STRICT JUNE DEADLINE. THE TIME TO START IS NOW!!
For FREE information via Email, send request to cslaw(a)indirect.com
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