[Az-Geocaching] spam

[Brian Cluff]

Noshdoo Tsoh wrote:
> I do not believe that the email header info is available to search robots, I
> think only the text in the email. Though I'm not positive about this.
> Anyone?

Thats correct, the archive software trims back the from header to just 
the name of the person.

These days the easiest source for spammers is the new viruses that have 
been out for the last year.  They search your whole hard drive, in ALL 
files, and send anything that looks like an email address back home... 
the best part is that 90% of all windows computers are infected with 
them.  While they are collecting all you private addess they also tend 
to send a ton of spam to whoever is on it's list while they are at it. 
That solves another one of the spammers problems, everwhere they connect 
to they tend to get kicked off of, so they just use your innocent 
machine to send they garbage.
With every infected machine being a potential spam server, we've had to 
completely cut off outgoing email to every machine unless it's going 
through our mail server.  Of course the newest viruses are firing back 
and are now sending spam through the configured outgoing mail servers.

I do think your right to some extent.  If people have a choice they 
should actively be changing the configuration of their email client to 
not put the original senders email address into the reply.  That is the 
only way they would show up on the web.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek