Let's play ... spam the spammers!
Eva Farkas Piotrowski
Robert Hartman wrote:
> If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they receive in a
> day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how long it
> takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
>
> -r
>
> 2324...@hotmail.com 3414...@10665.com 3561...@zignzag.com
> 4433...@zignzag.com 5152...@rocketmail.com 6038...@zignzag.com
> 6686...@07124.com 8168...@09041.com CPe...@ix.netcom.com
> Fri...@public.com Fri...@public.com Fundsr...@savetrees.com
> J...@wealth.com Sar...@ameritech.net
> Sar...@mpdr0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net Unli...@ginette.com
> ab...@cyberpromo.com adven...@rapidconnect.com
> appli...@answerme.com authen...@somewhere.com
> ba...@lustingforyou.com bi...@acmezig.com bi...@zignzag.com
> cind...@hotmail.com i...@quantcom.com j...@205.164.68.225
> repl...@answerme.com make...@aol.com max...@savetrees.com
> mo...@freeguide.com mo...@guaranteed.com offsho...@answerme.com
> pla...@freetriot.com powe...@kustom.on.ca rari...@getnet.com
> rem...@ginette.com repl...@answerme.com su...@lustingforyou.com
> use...@wealth1.net jay...@savetrees.com Free...@aol.com
> --
>
> Good Idea, I will play.
William Smith
Andre Lodwig wrote:
>
> Robert Hartman wrote:
> >
> > If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they receive in a
> > day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how long it
> > takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
>
> work. I switched to using a modified sender adress (netscape
> allows this) to reduce spam and it seems to work.
>
> Andre Lodwig
>
> for non-commercial replys: remove the x in my adress.
Unfortunately, a lot of their addresses are fictitious.
I got some really irritating spam one day and decided
to send all the shareware programs that I had in my
root directory, which amounted to a few megs and it bounced
right back to me.
Say, if one could verify the addresses, one could write
a short shell script that sends 600 or so junk e mail
messages to the more irritating spammers. (that uses
some system resources, but isn't it worth it)
--
****************************************
* William Smith *
* My real email address: *
* wi...@kanto.jyu.fi *
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Mirko Vukovic
Eva Farkas Piotrowski wrote:
>
> Robert Hartman wrote:
>
> > If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they receive in a
> > day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how long it
> > takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
> >
> >
> > 2324...@hotmail.com 3414...@10665.com 3561...@zignzag.com
> > 4433...@zignzag.com 5152...@rocketmail.com 6038...@zignzag.com
> > 6686...@07124.com 8168...@09041.com CPe...@ix.netcom.com
> > Fri...@public.com Fri...@public.com Fundsr...@savetrees.com
> > J...@wealth.com Sar...@ameritech.net
> > Sar...@mpdr0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net Unli...@ginette.com
> > ab...@cyberpromo.com adven...@rapidconnect.com
> > appli...@answerme.com authen...@somewhere.com
> > ba...@lustingforyou.com bi...@acmezig.com bi...@zignzag.com
> > cind...@hotmail.com i...@quantcom.com j...@205.164.68.225
> > repl...@answerme.com make...@aol.com max...@savetrees.com
> > mo...@freeguide.com mo...@guaranteed.com offsho...@answerme.com
> > pla...@freetriot.com powe...@kustom.on.ca rari...@getnet.com
> > rem...@ginette.com repl...@answerme.com su...@lustingforyou.com
> > use...@wealth1.net jay...@savetrees.com Free...@aol.com
> > --
> >
> > Good Idea, I will play.
try to reply to them with "remove" in the subject area. It seems that
they somehow hide their originating address.
--
Mirko Vukovic, Ph.D 3075 Hansen Way M/S K-109
Novellus Systems Palo Alto, CA, 94304
415/424-4969 mirko....@varian.grc.com
Robert Hartman
In article <5t1mdg$662$1...@elle.eunet.no>,
Steve Pepper <pep...@infotek.no> wrote:
:
:Excuse me for pointing this out, but you're in the wrong newsgroup.
:
:In the comp.text.sgml dictionary, 'spam' is defined as:
:
: Spam ('spæm), sb. 1995 [f. 'SP' (q.v.) + 'add markup'] An application
: of James Clark's SP parser for adding markup to SGML documents
: (act. more prop. desc. as a markup stream editor)
:
: Spam ('spæm), v. 1997. [f. SPAM sb.] To add markup to an SGML
: document using spam.
:
:Please take your discussion elsewhere.
Best one I've heard all month! Thanks!
Strangely enough, the volume of spam I've received has dropped
dramatically since I posted that article.
-r
--
You don't need to be a soldier to be a good man.
Tad McClellan
[ followups set to only comp.text.sgml, the group I saw it in.
The original post itself was a spam. I hate spam as much as the
next person, but spamming about spam is exactly as bad as
spamming about long distance service...
]
Bryan Ericson (beri...@geocities.com) wrote:
: William Smith wrote:
: > Andre Lodwig wrote:
: > >
: > > Robert Hartman wrote:
: > > >
: > > > If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they
: > receive in a
: > > > day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how
: > long it
: > > > takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
: > >
: <snip>
: > Say, if one could verify the addresses, one could write
: > a short shell script that sends 600 or so junk e mail
: > messages to the more irritating spammers. (that uses
: > some system resources, but isn't it worth it)
: >
: That would be what's known as a mail bomb, available
: from your favorite software hacking/virus/piracy site.
: Unfortunately, you run the risk of getting kicked off
: your server if your sysadmin objects to such activities.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As the overwhelming majority do.
Worse yet, that could be construed as a "denial of service" attack,
which opens you up to criminal prosecution...
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
ta...@flash.net Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
Steve Pepper
In article <33EEA3...@see.my.signature.file>, wi...@see.my.signature.file wrote:
>Andre Lodwig wrote:
>>
>> Robert Hartman wrote:
>> >
>> > If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they receive in a
Excuse me for pointing this out, but you're in the wrong newsgroup.
In the comp.text.sgml dictionary, 'spam' is defined as:
Spam ('spæm), sb. 1995 [f. 'SP' (q.v.) + 'add markup'] An application
of James Clark's SP parser for adding markup to SGML documents
(act. more prop. desc. as a markup stream editor)
Spam ('spæm), v. 1997. [f. SPAM sb.] To add markup to an SGML
document using spam.
Please take your discussion elsewhere.
Steve
--
Steve Pepper, Senior Information Architect <pep...@infotek.no>
STEP Infotek AS, Gjerdrums vei 12, N-0486 Oslo, Norway
http://www.infotek.no/ phone://+47 22021680/ fax://+47 22021681/
direct://+47 22021687/ GSM/cellular://+47 90827246/
Whirlwind Guide to SGML Tools: http://www.infotek.no/sgmltool/
Bryan Ericson
William Smith wrote:
> Andre Lodwig wrote:
> >
> > Robert Hartman wrote:
> > >
> > > If everyone saves the return addresses of the spam they
> receive in a
> > > day, and posts them to one or two newsgroups, we can see how
> long it
> > > takes for the spambots to flood each other into oblivion!
> >
<snip>
> Say, if one could verify the addresses, one could write
> a short shell script that sends 600 or so junk e mail
> messages to the more irritating spammers. (that uses
> some system resources, but isn't it worth it)
>
That would be what's known as a mail bomb, available
from your favorite software hacking/virus/piracy site.
Unfortunately, you run the risk of getting kicked off
your server if your sysadmin objects to such activities.
Bry