[antispam-f] Re: What have they got against Deborah anyway?

  • From: Richard Porter <ricp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:12:32 GMT

On 10 Nov 2006 Harriet Bazley wrote:

> We have been under massive Debora[h] attack for several days - somebody
> is generating messages from a vast number of names all claiming to be
> from  <deboraholiveir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <deborars1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <deborajrh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> etc, none
> of them actually called "Deborah"!   It's got to the stage where I've
> finally put in a high-priority block on *any* message with the string
> *debora* in the Message-Id:   I've checked messages from genuine
> Deborahs, and they all seem to use their surnames in the Message-Id
> field, if not just 'hotmail.com' etc.
> 
> Why the spammer is picking on Deborahs I don't know....

I hadn't noticed, but I've just looked through my AS_Deleted log and 
you're right, it's swarming with deborahs! I got 'em all though -
windows-1252! :-)

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