[PLUG] Joe Jobbed

Ken Hill ken at scottshill.com
Thu Oct 4 23:59:39 UTC 2007


I think I will do some research into what State governments and the Federal
government is doing to legislate SPAM. IMHO, SPAM is like telemarketing; I
don't like it but there appears to be some legal protections with respect to
free speech.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Russell Johnson
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:48 PM
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Joe Jobbed

Another thing to think about.

Some of the people paying to have spam sent (they are the real crooks  
here) are paying for the number of messages delivered, and some are  
paying for the number of messages sent. It doesn't take too much  
effort to make sure all the messages I send out are delivered  
*SOMEWHERE*.

As long as they aren't rejected, they are delivered.

Russ

On Oct 4, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Been happening to me for years (think of how many times
>> 'merlyn at stonehenge.com' might have been scraped by now.
>
>    The spam attempts that puzzle me the most (and for which the  
> subscribers
> of both the mail help and postfix mail lists had no insight) are the
> messages addressed to 'rshepardXXXX at ...' where the XXXX represent four
> random characters. I can reject hundreds of those per day. Why  
> anyone would
> think they'd hit on a legitimate username that way escapes my  
> comprehension.
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