DIYHPL.us Spam
CoryG
"undisclosed-recipients and says Bryan Bishop on the whois entry -
please disguise emails wherever they happen to be posted on there):
Hello My Dear,
My name is miss Linda, i am 24 years old, i got your profile and your
email address at (diyhpl.us) while i was searching for a friend and
became interested in you. The most important thing in life is love and
healthy, strong FRIENDSHIP and RELATIONSHIP. That's the thing i desire
most. Nothing in life can change it, neither money or anything else. I
am an ordinary girl with a big and lonely heart. I want my FRIEND to
be sensitive, caring, attentive and understanding. And after reading
your profile, i decided to contact you for a very important purpose. I
hope you wouldn't mind? because so many people misunderstand this life
but i know it to be a race which can only be won with combined efforts
of two people especially a man and a lovely woman. i will also like to
know more about you. I want you to reply me so i can send you my
picture for you to know whom l am. i believe we can move from here and
make something good out of our lives. I am waiting for your response.
(Remember that distance or color does not matter but love, sincere and
honest matters a lot in life) have a nice day.
Nathan McCorkle
but I remember seeing the FRIENDSHIP and RELATIONSHIP in bold caps
while getting ready to remove spam.
Unfortunately gmail deletes spam forever and I can't verify... :(
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Bryan Bishop
Bryan you got me spammed - apparently you own diyhpl.us (sent to
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507
Nathan McCorkle
CoryG
> from this end?
I've been meaning to change for a bit - they lend their MX servers to
a lot of spammers).
CoryG
other than Google Groups that shows up when I search Google for my
username and diyhpl - might just be a poorly coded spam bot trying to
link emails off nearby info in a page.
CoryG
> username and diyhpl - might just be a poorly coded spam bot trying to
> link emails off nearby info in a page.
not the mirrored DIYbio stuff. Not sure how a bot even found that
link but please obfuscate the emails a bit.
Bryan Bishop
Cory, can you send me the full email (with headers) so I can investigate from this end?
J. S. John
4 a day) while I never used to see that stuff. Could it be that those
forums that were set up are causing this problem? If so, can we shut
it down? I don't think anyone uses it except spambots.
CoryG
> from my server. Thanks for looking out though :-).
line alone) - it's because you have text files on the web with our
email addresses on them without any form of disguise - doing the
Google ema....ress.com thing would work or just replacing the @ and .
with AT and DOT respectively (would take like 5 seconds with a grep
statement).
> recently, I noticed an increased amount in my spam folder( about 3 or
> 4 a day) while I never used to see that stuff. Could it be that those
> forums that were set up are causing this problem? If so, can we shut
> it down? I don't think anyone uses it except spambots.
itself - but I think the person running o-bio.org is a spammer/scammer
themselves since their just mirroring a Google Group to seed content
and probably holding out hope someone will use the site (unless of
course I'm wrong and this is some kind of official logging mechanism,
though if thats the case I'd expect to see it on diybio.org or
something so I'm guessing a scammer).
Nathan McCorkle
>> After looking at the headers, it's evident that the spam is not being sent
>> from my server. Thanks for looking out though :-).
>
> I didn't suggest it was from you're server (thats evident in the From:
> line alone) - it's because you have text files on the web with our
> email addresses on them without any form of disguise - doing the
> Google ema....ress.com thing would work or just replacing the @ and .
> with AT and DOT respectively (would take like 5 seconds with a grep
> statement).
depending on the content and specific search and replace, changing @
and . automatically could lead to garbage content in some places
>
>> recently, I noticed an increased amount in my spam folder( about 3 or
>> 4 a day) while I never used to see that stuff. Could it be that those
>> forums that were set up are causing this problem? If so, can we shut
>> it down? I don't think anyone uses it except spambots.
>
> I agree, they probably are driving up spam since phpBB is a bot magnet
> itself - but I think the person running o-bio.org is a spammer/scammer
> themselves since their just mirroring a Google Group to seed content
> and probably holding out hope someone will use the site (unless of
> course I'm wrong and this is some kind of official logging mechanism,
> though if thats the case I'd expect to see it on diybio.org or
> something so I'm guessing a scammer).
o-bio is not a scam/spam... it was setup by someone here on the list
when there was a bunch of complaining about netiquette that has since
been calmed/corrected for the most part (i began writing this
paragraph above the quoted text, rather than inline like it is now...
which is the "proper" way to do it). It was setup because some people
didn't like the google groups interface or the mail list interface....
but it seems that in the end no one really cares, or as google wants
us to believe, that their software is superior than any others. I
really just like that my email is always open anyway... therefore I'm
pretty much always on the DIYbio list.
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Bryan Bishop
I agree, they probably are driving up spam since phpBB is a bot magnet
itself - but I think the person running o-bio.org is a spammer/scammer
themselves since their just mirroring a Google Group to seed content
and probably holding out hope someone will use the site (unless of
course I'm wrong and this is some kind of official logging mechanism,
CoryG
http://diyhpl.us/cgit/meetlog/plain/meetlog.txt
Since a spammer did specifically cite you're site as the source of the
email address, you're kinda doing a disservice to everyone on there,
proven by the fact others have received the spam.
Bryan Bishop
Could you fix this?
http://diyhpl.us/cgit/meetlog/plain/meetlog.txt
CoryG
care for on the web to begin with I'm deleting the entire repository.
Cathal Garvey
I'm wondering why this spam-spat is being conducted over a public list? /:)
Sent from my Phone
www.twitter.com/onetruecathal
www.indiebiotech.com
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