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Re: [LUG] Spam. What Spam?



Final thoughts from me on Spam.

I work for an ISP in Tech Support and have done more than my fair share
of spam reporting to various ISPs.  Something I noticed, which in all
honesty I haven't got round to testing out is the following simple
synopsis:

Have you noticed how a great deal of spam has something along the lines
of:  "Get your miscellaneous item here         string of characters"

I suspect the character string is some kind of identifier for either the
individual mail or the batch it went out in.  The thought occurs that if
a filter were set up to dump all email which had a Subject containing a
gap of more than, say, four spaces in a row, that would instantly blitz
a heck of a lot of it.

In fact I think I'll try setting that up today and see what happens.

Kind regards,

Julian


On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 00:02, Rob Thyssen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 11:34 pm, Keith Abraham wrote:
> > > > They report that spam email is choking the Internet.
> > > >
> > > > Well I've been using Linux off and on since feb 2000
> > > > (continously for the 12mths) and I have only had
> > > > 3 (yes three!) unsolicited emails.
> 
> Well on the other end of the spectrum, I get 50 ~ 60 spam messages a day. I 
> have about 20 or so filter rules in place to take care of them. I also run 
> custom scripts that examine headers for the spammers ISP and generate an 
> email to the abuse team. 
> 
> [rant] If I had my way, anyone affiliated with the promotion of spam would be 
> taken outside and shot. First in the knees and then in the head. The only 
> people I hate more than spammers are the idiots who read spam and then buy 
> something advertised within, propagating the vicious cycle. Their fate is 
> best decided by the new penis enlargment / hair growth / debt solution, they 
> have just acquired.
> 
> I dream of a day when enlightened ISPs will understand that it is more cost 
> effective to keep spam off their networks than it is to keep investing in the 
> infrastructure that conveys it. [/rant]
> 
> /rob
> 
> 
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