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From: Rich on 23 Jan 2008 10:27
On 2008.01.23. 17:17, Twayne wrote:
....
> Vishal,
>
> Since there is no way to know who this is and he seems completely
> unknown to the group, I would simply ignore him, or if you know how to
> parse headers, issue a complaint if there are forgeries in any of the
> headers.
> Newsgroups are favorite plaes for robots and crawlers to scrape
> e-mail addresses. Since we have to use our real e-mail addresses it
> makes it easy for bots and crawlers to find the adresses if they get
> past the defenses in place, whatever they are.
> If the headers and the given address can be believed , and I think
> they can, the mail came from Taiwan (.tw). It appears he may not
> realize he's technically spamming but I've already received two of his
> mails, identical to your, and if I get a third I will LART him with
> prejudice unless there are no forged headers, in which case he'll get
> one more chance to stop mailing me along with a form not to him about
> his spamming.

i have received 3 or 4 emails of this type to my personal email, now this.
both from formatting and contents they seem very suspicious, more like
an actual spam/scam.
quite annoying.

> From the X-Headers, it looks like they use Ironport's Spamcop.net for
> spam detection, and that's a very useful outfit. They are good at
> stopping it, but not prefect; sometimes things get by them. The spam
> score appears they just barely scraped past the filters with the spams
> to the group.
> My advice right now would be to simply ignore it and delete/mark it
> read, since there's no way of knowing what the guy is recording in
> addition to his survey.
>
> HTH
>
> Twayne
--
Rich

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