RE: [Utah-astronomy] Spam
How does one prevent this from happening? -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Hards [mailto:chuckhards@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:08 AM To: Utah-Astro Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Spam I've received several spam messages lately, all ostensibly from list members, yet obviously the account was pirated. You may want to make sure your email address hasn't been co-opted for unethical advertising. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com
I'm afraid it's impossible to prevent. Jerks somehow can hijack email addresses and make it appear as if you sent out email. I get numerous notes from automated systems that certain emails of mine did not go through -- when I never sent them in the first place. This is just one of the creepier aspects of our new communications. -- Joe
On 06-Apr-04 11:10, Joe Bauman wrote:
I'm afraid it's impossible to prevent. Jerks somehow can hijack email addresses and make it appear as if you sent out email. I get numerous When talking to an email server, a spammer can claim any return email address it wants. They used to use non-existant domains and names, until the mail servers started checking before accepting mail. Now, the spammers scavenge email addresses off the web (and anywhere else), and use those to bypass the mail server checks.
This is no different from sending postal mail with an incorrect return address on the envelope. It is just cheaper for the sender. -- The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting problems. --Vadim Antonov
I got soem too and a LOT at work each day. It seems very hard to prevent with all the recent viruses capturing email addresses and on and on it goes.... Paul Gettings <gettings@mines.utah.edu> wrote:On 06-Apr-04 11:10, Joe Bauman wrote:
I'm afraid it's impossible to prevent. Jerks somehow can hijack email addresses and make it appear as if you sent out email. I get numerous When talking to an email server, a spammer can claim any return email address it wants. They used to use non-existant domains and names, until the mail servers started checking before accepting mail. Now, the spammers scavenge email addresses off the web (and anywhere else), and use those to bypass the mail server checks.
This is no different from sending postal mail with an incorrect return address on the envelope. It is just cheaper for the sender. -- The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting problems. --Vadim Antonov _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com
--- Jim Stitley <sitf2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
I got soem too and a LOT at work each day. It seems very hard to prevent with all the recent viruses capturing email addresses and on and on it goes....
I sort-of solved the problem by getting-rid of the home computer (what a blessing, I'm using my brain again, more and more. Small steps, people). Office software is off-limits, but at least I get paid to delete the spam here! ;) C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
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