Re: Talk about spam...

I tend to reject an average of 500-1k messages a day for spam on my server=
 (highly trained SA moles, RBLS, etc), yet these damn stock messages get=
 through every once in a while.
Not sure how they're getting the addresses, I really doubt it's the (low=
 usage) mailing list, maybe dictionary attack methods?

> My email is hosted on the rotf.net domain and the server as a whole
> is getting stock quotes (among other things). It normally didn't
> get any spam until a few years back (but way after signing up for
> this list...). If the spam is related to being on this list, it
> would have to be someone who was infected with a virus which
> collects email contacts (or all email addys in general).
>
> Anyone know if it's even possible to solicit the list of email
> addresses and aliases that are attached to a domain name? I've had
> temporary email aliases set up for no more than 2 days, and never
> used, period, and they still received the same spam...maybe there's
> a SMTP 'broadcast' address of sorts... anyone know?
>
> Ammaross Danan
> Realms of the Forgotten
> www.rotf.net port 5000
>
> Matt Foltz wrote:
>> I have gotten a couple from the list in the last month or so. But
>> I get so many junk e-mails it's ridiculous.  Good ole yahoo
>> mail...
>>
>> --- Rom Code wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Has anybody else recently (within the last month or so) ended
>>> up getting spam about random and varied stock quotes/prices?
>>>
>>> I have this addy only for this list and it doesn't go out
>>> anywhere.  Someone
>>> got a hold of my address and now (besides the list info) I get
>>> stock spam...
>>>
>>> - Patrick
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>> -Matt Foltz
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