From: Patrycjusz R. Łogiewa (silverdr_at_inet.com.pl)
Date: 2004-10-28 15:23:33
On 28 paź 2004, at 8:42, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote:
>
>> But for Ruud - prepare yourself also for becoming one of the active
>> spammers in the near future. :-)
>
> You mean that this computer could act as an hidden spammer or
> something like
> that?
Theoretically yes. But I meant something else. It's just that the
harvested addresses are later on being used as "From:" addresses for
spam. I got such things forwarded/bounced to me, where I was the
"sender" of the original spam message. Of course I also was
"responsible" for a good number of worm spreading messages as you just
few days ago.
> I don't think so. One of the reasons I use ABP.nl is that it is the
> email address of my employer. And ABP has a huge network with about
> 4000 PCs
> and the according firewalls and other protection. OK, nothing is 100%
> virusproof but the chances that "my" computer secretly starts sending
> spam
> etc. are very very small IMHO.
Yes. But what I meant was that the spammers will send their stuff with
your address as the sender.
[...]
>
> In my case I'm not able to corrupt my own email address like
> NOSPAMruudDOTbaltissen.... . That's why in CSC and other NGs you can
> read my
> original email address. I discussed this with my network collegae but
> they
> said that that was company policy (although they understood).
>
Yeah. Frankly I don't really care anymore. I use the scrambled address
on usenet more as a habit than real hope for reducing the spam :-) I
even have some fun from time to time as I have a kind of a script,
which calculates the spam statistics and spamfilter efficiency for me.
:-) OK. Anyway it is a completely different topic.
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