X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,77eeafbfc4a4ce17 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 11:36:57 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Spam Date: 31 Jul 2001 20:38:10 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 54 Message-ID: <6usnfd9c6l.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2001 18:38:12 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: ascension.ethz.ch X-Trace: 31 Jul 2001 20:36:53 +0200, ascension.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6828 spamblock@no.spam (Harry Mason) writes: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:03:45 GMT, Faux_Pseudo wrote: > > --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > > --(Harry Mason said it like only they can.)-- > > > What's this new pile of spam about then? Is it trying to sell something or > > > just annoy everyone? > > some free spam filters for you > > I'm already behind a filter for /normal/ spam, but the latest batch is > really weird: > > | Hey, Roger never trains until Zephram outwits the tall laptop bimonthly. > | It's very robust today, I'll vend eventually or Chester will take the > | advertisements. > | To be bizarre or overloaded will engulf cold advertisements to finally open. > | > | cheers, L. Jacobs > > Is this a carefully coded message, an experimental AI program, just > meaningless bunkum, or what? It looks to me like an revenge attempt by an spammer. Looking at: - the multiple (obviously faked) From: lines, which all look like actual users accounts - The Followup to an newsgroup that discusses fighting email spammers I suspect this is a spammer who got shafted by some folks in that group and is trying to get revenge by: - burrying the group in complaint replys - getting some of his opponents accounts killed for "spamming" To get your back at this guy do this: - analyse his NNTP-Posting-Host: lines for the sending provider - report the spams with explanation of the situation to the providers - ask them to kill his net access AND CHARGE HIM CLEAN UP COSTS Clean up costs from enough providers will harm him financially so that he will in the end stop. Happy spammer trashing. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery