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Topic: Sex-industry spam - again!
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oldgoat
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Babbler # 1130
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posted 24 September 2002 02:22 PM
I get all kinds of the stuff on hotmail, and none on yahoo. I've reduced it a bit by blocking a lot of addresses. Quite a bit of it comes from yahoo addresses though, and I can't just block all addresses ending in Yahoo.ca. My kids need hotmail accounts for some of the features they use, and it's pretty creepy finding some of this stuff in my 11 year old daughters email. My 15 year old son got one called "Here's the teen porn you ordered, Frank". My name happens to be Frank. I still get a bit of teasing about that one. [ September 24, 2002: Message edited by: oldgoat ]
From: The 10th circle | Registered: Jul 2001
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'lance
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Babbler # 1064
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posted 24 September 2002 07:05 PM
For good erotic writing I'd recommend either nerve.com, or cleansheets.com. Not all of their stuff is good, of course, but a fair percentage is.I generally laugh when I get both "enlarge your breasts" and "enlarge your penis" spam in the same batch. The combination would be fun at parties, anyway. Anyway, I get spam not only on hotmail, but on the community net email account I use far more often. Hotmail sells your address to spammers, but on the community net, anyone can see a list of members' email addresses. I'm thinking of switching for that reason. I'm told that when spam includes the phrase "to be taken off this list, reply including the word 'unsubscribe,'" it's a mistake to do so. That only tells the spammers it's a real working email address, and you'll be absolutely deluged after that.
From: that enchanted place on the top of the Forest | Registered: Jul 2001
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oldgoat
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Babbler # 1130
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posted 24 September 2002 11:57 PM
quote: ASlmost every day, I get an e-mail from Brittany Spears in which she offers to allow me to watch her do various athletic acts on her "cam."
I responded to that one, and we've actually become good friends. In fact we usually get together on alternate Fridays. quote: I've accidentally logged on to porn sites while looking for medical or other information, I'm sure a lot of folks have.
That happened to me in my early internet/babble days. Someone was discussing age of consent laws, and I knew they were incorrect, but I wanted the right information. I threw a few words into the search that I thought would get me to the relavent legislation, but I got some sites with images that were pretty jarring. And a lot of them were just free sample teasers, I didn't even have to download anything. The scary thing is, any kid could easily bump into stuff like this.
From: The 10th circle | Registered: Jul 2001
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 25 September 2002 12:01 PM
quote: But aren't you afraid of hurting her feelings by not responding, jeff?
Yes, Jeff, you terrible heartbreaker, you. I know, it's your years lawyering that have jaded you to the heartbreak of a sweet, innocent, virginal young thing like Britney, right? After all, she's not quite a woman, not quite a child...
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Timebandit
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Babbler # 1448
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posted 25 September 2002 05:09 PM
I've gotten all kinds of really awful porn spam on my email... One of them that really threw me had "My baby almost lost her eye..." in the subject header, and thinking it was some sort of parenting safety thingy, I opened it (I rarely do if I don't recognize the sender), and was confronted by a large male appendage in an *ahem* excited state. Just glad the wee grils were not bumbling around the office at the time...Another disturbing one was some sort of "Nabokov Society", which I assume has something to do with child pornography. I didn't open it. The only address I don't get much spam on is my business account, which has its own domain name -- I only get harrassed for industry stuff. My cable access account and my hotmail account are pretty bad for it. Penis and breast enlargement, pornography, credit, Nigerian letters, herbal viagra, pot alternatives, free grants....
From: Urban prairie. | Registered: Sep 2001
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jeff house
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Babbler # 518
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posted 25 September 2002 06:49 PM
quote: You legal eagles certainly are bold. I'd have thought that a rather... personal question, to be held until the third date or so.
Thank you. We ARE bold. But on the first date, it is usually dutch treat, and what if she is using counterfeit money? A stolen credit card? False id? These things automatically occur to me, but that isn't being JADED! (Is it?)
From: toronto | Registered: May 2001
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WingNut
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Babbler # 1292
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posted 11 October 2002 10:45 AM
This is called taking advantage of an open relay. In short, a legitmate business with legitimate business needs decides to host their own mail server. In previous years, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, GroupWise and other mail server software shipped with relaying open by default.Spammers would send test mails through mail servers to test if the relay was open. If it were, they would begin sending their mail through that server.This has resulted in organizations such as mail-abuse.org establishing black hole lists comprised of open relays. There have been lawsuits. I do not know of any succesful lawsuits. Even hotmail was black holed. Being black holed means that mail originating from hotmail, for example, will be rejected be servers subscribing to the service. Hotmail, BTW, has not been on the list for quite some time. Hotmail may let a lot of spam through but it is not an open relay. Today's software all ships with relaying closed by default. They must be configured to relay your own mail or mail for networks and domains you administer. Still there are a lot of older systems out there in the hands of non-tech people who are unaware of these security issues or how to correct them. But open relays are becoming a thing of the past. Below is an example of an attempted and failed relay attempt. What is nice about this is we now also have the email id of the spammer as well as his assigned host name. We can now, if we choose, block both domains from communicating with our systems, period. Oct 8 14:07:12 gate postfix/smtpd[18632]: reject: RCPT from s211-49-24-216.thrunet.ne.kr[211.49.24.216]: 554 : Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied; [email protected] [email protected]
From: Out There | Registered: Aug 2001
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Mohamad Khan
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Babbler # 1752
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posted 22 October 2002 12:07 AM
Hotmail is Satan.but for those of us who are users, just set the Junk Mail Filter to exclusive. all email from addresses that aren't in your contact list will go into the Junk Drawer. i no longer get any crap in my Inbox; i just make sure my contacts are updated and peek into my Junk Drawer once in a while to make sure no actual mail has snuck in there--if not, Empty Folder. of course, this doesn't help people who are *supposed* to get a lot of mail from people they don't know, e.g., for business purposes. my girlfriend was complaining to me as well recently about receiving those penis enlargement ads. i used to get those a lot too...why the fuck to they want to drive it into guys' heads that we must have cocks the size of Mount Caucasus?!
From: "Glorified Harlem": Morningside Heights, NYC | Registered: Nov 2001
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