[Coco] Spam (was Boisy & Mark)

[Allen Huffman]

On Feb 27, 2005, at 4:56 PM, David wrote:
> Yep, there is a better way.. never give out your email address on the 
> internet unless you explicitly trust the person you're giving it to - 
> I treat my email address like I would my

Well, that would help you not RECEIVE spam, but that won't help at all 
in these situations.  The problem isn't with me at myserver.com -- but 
with the IP address that myserver.com uses.  ANYWAY at that ISP/hosting 
service who ever had their address used by spammers (most likely those 
viruses), or anyone using the server to send spam, may cause that IP 
address to get blacklisted, therefore NO ONE could send thru it to 
services it was blacklisted at.

I've found that many times.  A friend of mine, who hosts with my 
service, switched ISPs recently.  NOTHING I tried -- sending from my 
never-used mac.com address, even! -- could get a message to him.  Their 
spam blacklist was awful.  I tried sending from earthlink, yahoo, my 
DSL line, and mac.com -- nothing could get through to him.  Blech.

> I'm just waiting for some bright spark to generate an internet worm 
> with the sole purpose of collecting email addresses from people's 
> inboxes and outboxes, and forwarding them on to a third party to be 
> sold as 'validated email addresses'....

My personal conspiracy is that every time someone forwards a "pass this 
to all your friends", those are being done just to get fresh e-mail 
addresses (ie, we know these addys are probably real since they are in 
people's addr books, and are people who may not even have a web page or 
post to newsgroups or mailing lists, etc.).  Hrm.

		-- A