[NTLUG:Discuss] Spammer harvesting addresses from this list?

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fredjame [mailto:fredjame at concentric.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:12 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Spammer harvesting addresses from this
> list?
> 
> 
> I guess I can appreciate that - but how does one track down 
> the "vendor" 
> without verifying one's own address for that "vendors" 
> mailing list(s)?  
> Is this just for so called legit business who unfortunately 
> practice a 
> bit of mass advertising (spam by another name still stinks), 
> or can your 
> "identification" method be used against all, or most, spammers?  The 
> legit businesses don't tick me nearly as much as the seedy (deleted 
> explicative).

Not sure exactly what you mean, but what I mean is this:

I get an e-mail (with a legit return address) saying "Hi, I'm Joe Blow with XYZ Widget Corp, and we provide the worlds best widgets blah, blah, blah..."

I reply to that person and say "Don't bother, because you've sent UCE you're blacklisted forever and ever.  Thanks for playing."

Now for the normal spam with bogus return addresses (viagra and similar spam), that stuff gets caught at the border - Bank of America has a pretty awesome anti-spam filtering system.

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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
(972) 997-9641

The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer, Bank of America.