Heavy Spam Attack

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:25:29 -0700, "Starlord"
wrote:

There are always spammers looking for new e-mail address from the posters here,
they have software that auto collects all such from here. That's why you either
have to use a spam block, a fake return address, or like I do,


Won't putting REMOVE in your return e-mail, such as"

help? I've noticed that many people put
such things in their e-mails and hope that those who do reply are
smart enough to do just that--REMOVE "remove".

Your two-cents?
Mark Ferrante








a service (free)
that filters out the spam.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:16:30 -0400, TK
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:39:26 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:44:25 GMT, John Ferman
wrote:
...

This is where I have a problem with the ISPs filtering. They, in
general just send the user a message telling you some one (address
included) sent you a virus, but they don't include the headers. You
need to use the IP, not the return address.

This is not reliable either. Microsoft left a hole in their IP
stack that allows spoofing of source IP addresses too. There is
a good article at the Gibson Research site about this - it is
called a reflected DOS attack.

True, it's not what you'd call reliable, but it ...as a guess it
probably about 4 or 5 times more accurate than using the actual e-mail
address...which isn't saying a lot.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

TK
...

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:16:30 -0400, TK
wrote:

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:39:26 GMT, Roger Halstead
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:44:25 GMT, John Ferman
wrote:
...

This is where I have a problem with the ISPs filtering. They, in
general just send the user a message telling you some one (address
included) sent you a virus, but they don't include the headers. You
need to use the IP, not the return address.

This is not reliable either. Microsoft left a hole in their IP
stack that allows spoofing of source IP addresses too. There is
a good article at the Gibson Research site about this - it is
called a reflected DOS attack.

True, it's not what you'd call reliable, but it ...as a guess it
probably about 4 or 5 times more accurate than using the actual e-mail
address...which isn't saying a lot.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

TK
...

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)