[sac-board] Re: Spam for the Prez....A question for Bob E., Stan,and Paul.....

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:39:53 -0700, SACPresident wrote:

> Hello all, especially Stan....
> I've already noted I'm getting spam on the president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> address.  I know that Stan put the links up using the JavaScript method of 
> spambot prevention.  Soooooo, my question is, has anyone else gotten spam on 
> their new addresses, and why the heck am I getting spam on this account if 
> it's "hidden" from the crawlers?  Are the addresses not "hidden" on the 
> Saguaroastro server where we logged in to change the passwords?
> 
> I'd really hate to have this email get totally bogged down with garbage.
> 

Your javascipt entry on the web site is wrong.  It ends up with two
@-signs.

I don't think your address was captured via the web page.  I did a search
on google for your address and it came up empty, so I really doubt it came
from a web page.  Most likely someone has an infected PC which sent out a
copy of their addressbook.  Alternatively (or even, in addition), you
displayed an HTML spam message which downloaded a unique JPEG image that
flagged your address as "alive".  Stop using Outlook Express.  Even MS has
abandoned this product.

Perhaps you should consider Mozilla or Mozilla Thunderbird for your E-mail
(the latter is the stand-alone version, without the browser.  Mozilla
Firefox is the stand-alone browser).  You can mark incoming spam as junk,
and after enough messages have been marked, similar messages will also be
marked as junk (and filed as such).

I have a similar bayesian filter for my E-mail.  I get roughly 20-50 spam
messages a day, but I only see 2 or 3 that the filter can't classify.

        -Paul

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