SPAM

SPAM

[Richard B. Johnson]

Hello list,
Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that
they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is
the condition upon which users get "free" service. However,
they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This
means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your
wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately
be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc.
Be forewarned.

I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if
email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to
send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
but it's a logical black hole.

Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are
paranoid!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

[OT] Re: SPAM

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:45:51AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that
> they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is
> the condition upon which users get "free" service. However,
> they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This
> means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your
> wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately
> be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc.
> Be forewarned.
> 
> I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if
> email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to
> send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
> SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
> the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
> but it's a logical black hole.

well, otherwise they wouldn't have something to
fight, together with M$ and AOL ...

> Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are
> paranoid!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
>             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: SPAM

[Maciej Soltysiak]

> send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
> SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
> the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
> but it's a logical black hole.
Hmm, so how come yahoo servers rarely get to RBL lists?
I just did a check on 9 yahoo mx servers, only one server
was filtered on ONLY ONE out of 7 rbl servers.
64.156.215.5 RBL filtered by l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net

Try adding l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net to your rblserver, maybe it will help.

Maciej

[OT] Re: SPAM

[Helge Hafting]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Hello list,
> Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that
> they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is
> the condition upon which users get "free" service. However,
> they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This
> means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your
> wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately
> be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc.
> Be forewarned.
> 

Interesting.  Probably a good reason to use yahoo
whenever I send mail to abuse@somewhere . . .

Helge Hafting