Re: spam protection (Re: A note to Red Hat about spam.)

[E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>]

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 01:03, you wrote:
> >?Do I need to remind Red Hat that the sending of unsolicited, unwelcome 
email 
> >?costs the recipient money, time dealing with it, and reduces bandwidth 
for 
> >?the purpose for which it's bought.
> 
> We're quite aware of that; as at least all tracable spammers who dared 
> spamming me in the last year will be able to tell you.
> 
> >?In making subscribers's email addresses available from its web pages, Red 
Hat 
> >?is a party to this theft.
> 
> I've asked IS to turn this off, but of course, spammers can still 

Maybe some words in the right ears from more Red Hatters would help. I'd have 
included a copy of my original to the list maintainer, but I couldn't easily 
find an appropriate email address.

> subscribe to mailing lists to get a load of email addresses by indexing 
> all addresses.


I understand they can subscribe to the list, but that requires more effort. 
When I checked the archive (soon after I subscribed to this list), there were 
email addresses in plain view.

I mentioned it to this list at the time.

> On the other hand, I think the spammer stole Red Hat's resources. By any 
> chance, did you trace this spammer?

My regular account gets to much spam that tracing it all would take more time 
than I'm prepared to spend.

Here are the headers for anyone who's interested:
>From kprest dublin com Tue Jan  1 00:10:47 2002
Return-Path: <kprest dublin com>
Received: from localhost (IDENT:VuILXALOsgwPH/gSGGcz0MUCmnDE8IKT localhost 
[127.0.0.1])
        by dugite.os2.ami.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBVG5BY07389
        for <enigma mail os2 ami com au>; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 00:05:19 +0800
Received: from mail.ami.com.au [203.55.31.43]
        by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.5)
        for enigma mail os2 ami com au (multi-drop); Tue, 01 Jan 2002 
00:05:19 +0800 (WST)
Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net 
[209.226.175.52])
        by netsrvr.ami.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBVG4tO31976
        for <enigma os2 ami com au>; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 00:04:57 +0800
Received: from dublin.com ([64.229.9.125]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net
          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP
          id <20011231160450 ZBWR15062 tomts8-srv bellnexxia net dublin com>
          for <enigma os2 ami com au>; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:04:50 -0500
From: "amytluck" <kprest dublin com>
To: <enigma os2 ami com au>
Subject: Would you like to be a Millionaire?
Sender: "amytluck" <kprest dublin com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="ISO-8859-1"
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:10:47 -0500
Reply-To: "amytluck" <kprest dublin com>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20011231160450 ZBWR15062 tomts8-srv bellnexxia net dublin com>
Status: R
X-Status: N


I've recently reblocked hotmail, and added a few other regular sources 
including msn.com.


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Happy new year all.


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