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This is the Conversation Forum for How to Fight Spam << MUNGing (scrambling) your eMail address Mail routers >> Subject: Shocking Posted May 6, 2003 by Atlantic_Cable   Posting 1 A recent news story I saw said that an estimate of spam was that 90% of the spam circulating today was from 180 individual people. It also said that many spam offers were bogus and were attempts to get real email account lists that could be sold to others. Do you think the 180 people spend all day selling spam lists to each other? I welcome the new laws to fight spammers. Lock em all up. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Shocking Posted May 6, 2003 by U195408 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 That would be good. I actually read an article by someone who actually tried to look into some of the spam offers. It turns out, that by the time he got the email, the site was usually closed already! Or it had never worked to begin with. Go figure. So I tried it myself...I tried about 5, and none ever worked. Couldn't even bring up the web page usually. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Shocking Posted May 6, 2003 by Atlantic_Cable This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 You should be careful. If you open an email with a picture in it (and we know what the picture will be of) it can be set up that the picture generates a unique server request, that identifies the address the spammer sent to and they then know that your email is a real one. I'm thinking of upgrading to Yahoo's progressive intelligent anti-spam software. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Shocking Posted May 7, 2003 by U195408 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 I was pretty careful. I copied down the IP addresses, then entered them into my browser, which was set on insanely high security. Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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