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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 15-Aug-2003 15:44:38
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| Uhhh.. thats not a good thing. My old e-mail address was being used as the "From:" field by spammers, so I would get all the "please unsubscribe me" and "mail delivery failed" messages, even though the spam was nothing at all to do with me.
This could end up sending decoy messages to thousands of innocent users.
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 15-Aug-2003 21:10:41
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| Agreed. it's a load of old cobblers. Without actually analysing the spam and getting the perpetrator kicked off its ISP, you're going to get nowhere.
Decoy adresses are only good for detecting dictionary attacks. |
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 15-Aug-2003 21:44:19
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| OMG LOL 
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 7:02:44
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Thats why they will post on various sites and forums. Then search bots will pick them up.
They propably won´t reply to the spam they get. But rather track the worst spammers down by analyzing the mail, their routes and the ip´s they get and then spam the real sender.
In new versions of windozer you will get a warning before posting your mail adress to various sites ;)
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 14:15:30
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| So M$ is full of crap again are they? (nothing new)
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 17:14:28
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| BTW, Hotmail accounts are dirt easy to "crack"... |
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 17:46:10
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| BTW, Hotmail accounts are dirt easy to "crack"... |
I'v heard that some where befor but can't remember where though. 
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 18:41:36
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| So M$ is full of crap again are they? (nothing new) |
Re-LOL
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 16-Aug-2003 19:22:41
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| flaming msn hotmail bollox !!
My niece just learned to leave that poxy thing WELL alone.
Stuffed her sys good & proper ....
Win2kpro reinstall time ( format & install) Only thing was... She didn't want ot lose around a 1000 emails she had.
Hehe
Tuff titty.
She'll learn (the hard way) 
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Re: MS Hotmail is spaming the spammers.
Posted on 18-Aug-2003 13:45:18
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| I think the spamming in the title is about spamming the email adress bot that goes round collecting email addresses, and then harvesting the information sent to to those email accounts to block the incoming spam.
For instance if the spam is found always to have penis in the subject. then emails having penis in the subject would be given a certain spam score, If the email contains several likely spam strings or identifyiers it gets over a certain spam threshold where it can be automatically binned, or just deleted.
I mean MS is dumb but not that dumb. |
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