Re: Reporting My own IP?

Mike Easter wrote:
> The subject of attachments and uuencoding
> is another topic that I'll save for later after discussing the
> problem you are asking about.

You shouldn't be submitting spam as an attachment or any other way into
any of the newsgroups except spamcop.spam

Even spamcop.spam isn't as good a way to submit spam as a tracking URL
as demonstrated.

You [probably] shouldn't be configured to make your attachments
uuencoded, unless you are specifically trying to hop over some hurdle I
don't know about.  That configuration is here:  OE/ Tools/ Options/ Send
tab - News sending format - Plain text settings button/ - select MIME
encoding and None from the menu instead of the other radio button
Uuencoding.

The problem is, at least in this particular little instance in which
there is already a relative no-no of posting spam in the wrong group and
putting an attachment into this group, that if someone is trying to
'cope with' your attachment that the 'issue' can't be examined quite as
easily.  If the original spam had been not uuencoded as an attachment
instead of mime, it would have been one decoding step more accessible.
It is possible for someone to handle your post 'as is' insecurely if
they handle it carelessly.

If someone else's OE is configured insecurely and if you post a
dangerous .eml attachment and they can't 'see' what is 'inside' your
attachment because all they see in the Properties is 'begin 666' and
then the encoding, the careless viewer might decide to click open the
Solid Financing for the USA!.eml -- and if that eml is a dangerous item
somehow, then they have become virus infected from the content or
perhaps by being delivered to a bad website.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin