Re: what is "gsm ping"?

On Thu, 3 May 2007 21:22:42 +0000
Pollywog <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/30/07, Arne Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Am Dienstag 24 April 2007 18:11:08 schrieb Pollywog:
> > > I have been getting many spams in the Cyrillic alphabet or in
> > > English with .ru URL's and the first characters in the spams are
> > > "GSM ping" I had not seen such spams until a week or so ago, are
> > > they being sent from cell phones? The spams are disguised as AUTH
> > > requests, otherwise I would never even see them.
> >
> > Hm, I never saw those. But I regularly get seemingly senseless spam
> > emails. So
> > why should they stop with ICQ? :)
> 
> 
> 
> I have some defense against email spams, but these ICQ spams are
> something else.  The only solution is Jabber, if only people would
> use it.

i don't get any icq spam... did you uncheck the
web-online-status-thingy ? 

greets, 
Florian

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