[Az-Geocaching] spam

[Noshdoo Tsoh]

I've somehow managed to shield several of my email addresses from spammers
and that's the only reason I was able to make the listserve posting and spam
connection with this email account once the spam started. I think pretty
much, if google can find your email address, so can spammers, and it sounds
like spammers have some pretty intrusive tricks in addition to that.

-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of
Brian Cluff
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:53 AM
To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] spam


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
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