Posted by guv on 11/03/05 22:41

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:56:49 -0000, Colin Wilson <void@btinternet.com>
wrote:

>> >>unless they are putting together random combinations of letters and words
>> >>for their spam of course - which some spam companies do.
>> If that were the case, Colin would receive masses of the other
>> combinations being "tested" the fact it seems to be only one is pretty
>> damning proof.
>
>Oh, believe me, I do get masses of spam (used to be in the region of
>550-600 per day, now down to 250-300 per day),

I didnt mean you didnt! You mentioned it was to your domain..... as
you said you can spot them. Using something like
linksyssupport@mydomain.com to denote Linksys support registration is
pretty damning if you get that in my eyes. Sales@mydomain.com
signifies nothing.


>but I also have a
>cracking set of filters hand-crafted by me for Mailwasher. My markup
>rate for auto-deletion of spam is around 95% at a guess, and only
>tends to "miss" one-off compromised machines (I use "hard" filters,
>and don`t use any bayesian filtering)

Indeed. I use mailwasher. Its the header content rather than email
address to target! Its nice to set Pharmacy, Calis and whatever to
weed the crap out without compomising real mail. I still have to check
about 50 a day though - but all the rest is vaporised apart from those
I can see are deliberate sell addresses which I bounce via my domain.

>The majority of the spam comes to (3) accounts I have with btinternet
>and lineone, and are not related to the domain names I own.

Indeed. Most of mine appears to be for my btinternet account. The
(several) domains do get hit, but its mostly the bt one. What I dodnt
understand, is why I get items not addressed to me using something
*similar* to my username.

>I get "occasional" ones aimed at sales@mydomain and to someone who
>worked for another domain name I bought (its a specific name) - but
>these probably account for 20 a week at most.

Me too.

>I`ve been at the spam tracking game for a while now, and can spot the
>difference between spam and targeted/sold email addresses.

Yup.

>I have
>previously called in the banking ombudsman to bollock Morgan Stanley
>for dubious emailing practices (using an unknown out-of-the-country
>third party and disguised URLs - and html misdirection)

Very naughty. I registered with them for their vacancies. Havent
noticed anything untoward!

>Their vague reply follows, and I can probably dig out the banking
>ombudsmans' reply if anyone wanted it...
>
>http://www.phoenixbbs.dsl.pipex.com/morganstanley.jpg

Interesting. So no sign they will stop the practise of doing so. Dont
you just love them!

Similar to this - Orange sell your number to all sorts of companies.
The amount of times Ive had "we represent orange and want to talk abou
your upgrade!" Really makes me puke. Ive phoned Orange so many times
its untrue. How many times do you need to tell them you have signed up
to the prefered service and already instructed them you dont wish yor
number to be given to anyone!
>
>There`s a quiz that might be of interest too...
>
>MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test
>http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html

If I got emails from any of them, they get zapped! Especially bloody
ebay!



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