Using newsgroups to clean-up your inbox
Simon Pamu
I was told that posting your email-adres on UseNet, like this:
sup...@noiseline.net
...would cause gargantuan ammounts of spam to be sent near-instantly. I was
wondering whether this was true or not...
with regards,
Simon Pamu.
Peter N. M. Hansteen
> ...would cause gargantuan ammounts of spam to be sent near-instantly. I was
> wondering whether this was true or not...
Please do report back your findings.
How much spam you'll actually see of course depends on what kind of
systems are in place (content filtering, tarpitting or otherwise) in
the signal path to your mailbox. It would be nice if you could give
us an indication of those too, so we can make a sane evaluation of
what you report later.
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
Gary R. Schmidt
> Hi,
>
> I was told that posting your email-adres on UseNet, like this:
> sup...@noiseline.net
>
> ...would cause gargantuan ammounts of spam to be sent near-instantly. I was
> wondering whether this was true or not...
>
Well, my various addresses have been visible on Usenet for nigh-on 20
years now, the earliest that is still alive dates to around 1995 and it
probably averages around 4 SPAM messages a day. Which is very close to
99.999999% of all messages to that address, I just keep it alive for
amusement and as a fall-back.
The address I am using now (yes, the one up in the "From:" header) dates
from 2002 and is filtered by Postini, and that traps about 50 messages a
day on average, with maybe 1 or 2 a month getting through.
One of my Hotmail addresses that has *never* been published cops about
10 SPAM messages a day but it fits the "four letters and a digit" pattern.
One of my addresses that I inadvertently published in the body of a
Usenet message has not received a SPAM message in the 5 years it has
existed.
Cheers,
Gary B-)