[Az-Geocaching] spam

[Ken Bowley]

The full message is still available, unless the spam harvesters ignore the 
link for the raw message over on the right side of the page.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Brian Cluff wrote:

> Noshdoo Tsoh wrote:
>> I do not believe that the email header info is available to search robots, 
>> I
>> think only the text in the email. Though I'm not positive about this.
>> Anyone?
>
> Thats correct, the archive software trims back the from header to just the 
> name of the person.
>
> These days the easiest source for spammers is the new viruses that have been 
> out for the last year.  They search your whole hard drive, in ALL files, and 
> send anything that looks like an email address back home... the best part is 
> that 90% of all windows computers are infected with them.  While they are 
> collecting all you private addess they also tend to send a ton of spam to 
> whoever is on it's list while they are at it. That solves another one of the 
> spammers problems, everwhere they connect to they tend to get kicked off of, 
> so they just use your innocent machine to send they garbage.
> With every infected machine being a potential spam server, we've had to 
> completely cut off outgoing email to every machine unless it's going through 
> our mail server.  Of course the newest viruses are firing back and are now 
> sending spam through the configured outgoing mail servers.
>
> I do think your right to some extent.  If people have a choice they should 
> actively be changing the configuration of their email client to not put the 
> original senders email address into the reply.  That is the only way they 
> would show up on the web.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
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