[arachne] Re: Spam

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Udo,

The changing IP Address may be "good for the spammer", as they
use forged and hijacked IP Addresses anyway.  What I'm trying to
get across is the fact that my computers, none of them, in over
12 years of some sort of dialup access, has been hijacked.  Call
it luck, or diligence, but that's the way it is.  When I connect
to my ISP, via dialup, each time I get a different IP address.
This makes me a moving target, hard to get crosshairs on, and
by extension much harder to compromise.  If some jackass on a
dialup connection wishes to spam a newsgroup, email list or what
ever it may be, then the time it is going to take is multiplied
by the slower speeds of dialup.  To best of my knowledge, no known
"spammer" uses hijacked dialup only connections...they go for the
always on broadband highspeed connections.
C U L8R!
Wiz  <{;-)
In message Mon, 01 Jan 2007 04:42:36 +0000,
  "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>  writes:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
>
>> Udo,
>>   The "web forum spam" is probably what I referred to in newsgroup NNTP
>>    discussion a few months back.  NNTP is a sure way to get your email
>> address  added to spammer list, be it dialup or broadband.
>>
>
>
>> CU L8R!
>>   Wiz <{;-)
>>
>
> Hi Wiz,
>
> I think you misunderstood me - I am not talking about the harvesting of
> email addresses, I am talking about the posting of Spam in web forums.
>
> If a forum is visited by 1000 people per day, then posting a single Spam
> message is equivalent to sending out 1000 Spam emails to those users.
> Yet the bandwidth required for posting a single message is much lower.
>
> So the main requirement for successfully posting Spam in a web forum is
> not a vast bandwidth but an ever-changing IP address. This makes
> non-persistent connections and dynamically assigned IP addresses ideal
> for the spammers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Udo
>
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