Re: Offlist spam

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 02:52:29PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> You might ask:  What's up with this?  My best guess:  It's a clever
> evolution in spammer methods, because in 2018 the Internet's coin of the
> realm is user engagement.  If you barrage with spam a user who has
> provably just sent mail to a public medium, and give it the surface
> appearance of a response within that medium, you make it much more
> likely your Internet noise will rise above the rest of the Internet
> noise hitting the user.  Meanwhile, this is yet another reason to 
> dislike suddenly unexplained offlist responses to public threads, and it
> might be wise to make antispam software treat such received mail as
> suspect.
> </hat>

For spamassassin users:

header  AIDYZ_COM       From =~ /\.aidyz.com/
score   AIDYZ_COM       4.9
describe AIDYZ_COM      repeat spammer

Although I'm sure the source will change now. Rinse and repeat.

-dsr-