Message-ID: <c2573e04110112103e96b2aa@mail.gmail.com>
From: smp.repicky at gmail.com (Matt)
Subject: [SPAM] Re: Re: I will be awaiting your immediate response.

I don't see how getting yourself a private email address that is spam
free is such a hard problem.  I probably have 8-10 email addresses on
different email providers.  3 of which are private and remain between
me and friends/family and don't receive any spam, except for the
accounts that belong to yahoo and hotmail and receive the regular BS
that those domains tends to send to their clients.  1 address is an
account that i have abandoned that i used to have through dialup
provider.  The others i use on varying degrees of what i want to
register for on the internet depending upon how much spam i think i'm
gonna take from the process.  The most trusted registration account
receives only one or two spam messages every few days, whereas the
least trusted account receives 40-50 daily.

This account I made for the purpose of receiving security mailing
lists.  That's all it does.  About 80+ messages daily, and not one of
them to be considered "spam" as i've requested to get them all.  I am
impressed with the job gmail has done.

If you track your actions, it is possible to keep accounts clean.  And
if you keep track of who has your email address you can find out where
leaks come from.  However, I must agree the best way to get away from
spam is to get away from a spammed account and find out where the leak
came from.  Otherwise put up with the 10-15 messages a day or whatever
you're getting.

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:14:53 -0500, GuidoZ <uberguidoz@...il.com> wrote:
> > Changing email adresses is NOT the way to fight spam. It's not fool-proof,
> > it's folish. Your new one goes around after a while because someone in
> > your family/relatives/friends gets another worm/virus/... and the spammers
> > get your email address again.
> 
> It has certainly worked for me. I've had the same email address for
> 10+ years. I've had another for almost 8 years. Between the two of
> them, which I do still check weekly, I receive roughly 6,000 spam per
> day. (Lately, I've yet to see less then 30,000 spam between the two of
> them upon checking them weekly.) I use them to scan and generate
> proper filters for my various anti-spam fighting systems, both in
> Windows and Linux.
> 
> I also created a new email address that I use just for business. It's
> about 3 years old and only receives 10-15 spam a day. (Much of this I
> suspect is from a registration that was performed without my knowledge
> - I have a separate email for registrations just for such a reason.)
> Finally, I have a personal email account as well that friends and
> family have. It's roughly 4 years old and only sees 20-30 spam per
> day. The difference in them all, besides the age, is that I haven't
> ever posted the business/personal one to a public space. The original
> two (6,000+ per day) were both posted. (Each one on a website.) One is
> business, one is personal. I've checked the access logs - it's easy to
> pick out the spam bots.
> 
> While worms and viruses are defanately a problem when it comes to
> spamming (from zombie machines to spoofing your address), it's not the
> #1 problem. The fact that it's so easy to spam and get away with it
> is. Google "bulk emailing" and see just how easy it is to get started.
> Go buy one of the CDs that contain 13 million address, all for about
> $20. That's your #1 problem.
> 
> > Securing every machine on the internet would be a good start. 95% of all
> > spam messages I have seen lately gets send from DSL or Cable IP addresses.
> > These are machine which run spamware without the user knowing (s)he is
> > sending out spam by the buckets untill their ISP shuts them down.
> 
> Securing every machine on the Internet would be a very good start
> indeed. Would also help quite a few other things as well. I'm open to
> ideas on how. =) (As are a billion other people.) It's obviously just
> never going to happen, therefore it's best to do the "next best
> thing". Education can go a long way, both towards securing machines
> and stopping spam. Enforcement of laws (all over the world) would also
> help... instead of just making new ones that people won't follow.
> (More info: http://www.spamlaws.com/ )
> 
> No one is afriad of breaking a law. All they are worried about is
> being caught and punished. (If the former were true, then no one would
> break the law.) Enforcement of laws and severe punishment of spammers
> would be a step in the right direction. I've tried to do my part by
> applying the local laws where I live (Washington State, USA). I've
> sued spammers under the law, and won. It's not difficult really - they
> aren't setup to try and fight back. Check the link above then call a
> lawyer in your local area that has some knowledge of the subject.
> 
> My wife was a victim of being blacklisted. Her business email/website
> is on a shared server. (Virtual host.) Someone else who also signed up
> for a web hosting packge evidently used the server to spam. So, we
> come to find out that many spam lists now listed the mail server two
> tiers up (the web host's mail server host) was blacklisted. Business
> emails (sales receipts, replies to questions, etc) started being
> returned as blacklisted. She's never done anything wrong in her life
> in relation to spam/email, yet she is punished. Securing the system
> wouldn't of done a thing to prevent that, though enforcement of laws
> would. All that happened to this individual? They lost their hosting
> account. (They still got their 13 million emails out...)
> 
> Appreciate the reply Hugo. Excellent points.
> 
> --
> Peace. ~G
> 
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:38:36 +0100 (CET), Hugo van der Kooij
> 
> 
> <hvdkooij@...derkooij.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, GuidoZ wrote:
> >
> > > I'm seeing quite a rise in spam as well. The reason is most likely
> > > quite simple... Gmail was new before, hence it wasn't spammed. The
> > > best way to get rid of spam in your inbox - get a new one! Only
> > > fool-proof way there is. Now that it's been around for awhile, so has
> > > your email address. (There goes their trump card.)
> >
> > Changing email adresses is NOT the way to fight spam. It's not fool-proof,
> > it's folish. Your new one goes around after a while because someone in
> > your family/relatives/friends gets another worm/virus/... and the spammers
> > get your email address again.
> >
> > Securing every machine on the internet would be a good start. 95% of all
> > spam messages I have seen lately gets send from DSL or Cable IP addresses.
> > These are machine which run spamware without the user knowing (s)he is
> > sending out spam by the buckets untill their ISP shuts them down.
> >
> > Hugo.
> >
> > --
> >         I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist.
> >         hvdkooij@...derkooij.org                http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/
> >                 Don't meddle in the affairs of magicians,
> >                 for they are subtle and quick to anger.
> >
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