Speak for yourself, Striek.Quote:
Originally posted here by Striek
Because all men are insecure. The entire Vietnam war was fought over who had the biggest dick.
/me Vietnam vet with no insecurities.
I'm finding that the majority of the SPAM arriving at our mail server is generated from lists created a couple years ago when someone was scraping addresses from our web sites. My Postmaster mail box gets filled daily with the undeliverables from this because many of those addresses are no longer valid.
I can even date the list by when I placed the robots.txt file on the web server entry points, as to what addresses are still working and the addresses no longer working.
My guess is that this list (among others) is floating around out there being used by various SPAMmers. I don't think they are legitimate businesses. I'm beginning to think that most of the SPAM has nothing to do with trying to sell something, but identifying possibly vulnerable networks, systems and mailboxes (fools who will click on the "unsubscribe me" links). It is a bit disconcerting to think of the kind of information that can be gathered by this kind of mail (system data, user data) by clicking on one of those links. Is the recipient's autofill feature turned on? Electronic wallet? If so, what kind of data might be automagically included in a response when the user clicks on that "I don't want any more of this" link?
Enlargments, medications, loans, mortgages and other topics are used to hook the recipient into making some kind of response.
