[sac-board] Re: Spam for the Prez....A question for Bob E., Stan,and Paul.....
- From: Paul Dickson <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: SAC-Board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:17:35 -0700
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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