spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:19:06PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> > 
> > However the traplist activities are really about identifying spam
> > sending hosts.  If a machine we have not exchanged mail with in recent
> > times tries to deliver mail to something bizarre like
> > <3c86y7xj60op.fsf at amidala.datadok.no> (which looks like it was actually
> > based on a GNUS message-ID), the message is either spam or in some
> > very rare cases a bounce message triggered by an attempt to deliver
> > spam.  
> 

	One comment that's almost too obvious is that the spam masters
	keep coming up with new twists;  on idea that may not be pragmatic
	is to stay a few steps *ahead* of their gimmicks.... 

	gary

> 

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