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15 Nov 06 - 09:05 AM (#1886075) Subject: BS: Best Spams From: wysiwyg Subject: Is this who I think? Message: If so let me know. -Danielle ~Susan |
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15 Nov 06 - 09:33 AM (#1886093) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: JennyO Funny you should ask. Today everyone on the local venue organiser's group got this email purporting to be from our host. The only trouble was that we got it 648 times in the space of 6 hours. G'day! I'm having a spot of bother with spam email these days and only accept mail from people whose email address I have in my address book. As I don't seem to have your email address in my address book yet, please (just this one time) send your email again including the word cleanshaven in the subject. The word 'cleanshaven' as part of the Subject will mean that your message will get through to my Inbox and I'll then add your address to my address book. From that point on communication between us should be fine. (However, don't forget to let me know if you change your email address!) On the other hand, if you are a S@#$&*^&!@# spammer!!! then as you get stupid machines to do your dirty work for you and they won't be able to read this message you'll never polute my intray again!!! Yippee!!!! And HE is having a spot of bother with spam email! |
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15 Nov 06 - 04:22 PM (#1886132) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: wysiwyg You understood my thread perfectly! Great example! ~Susan |
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16 Nov 06 - 02:15 AM (#1886159) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: The Fooles Troupe "only accept mail from people whose email address I have in my address book. As I don't seem to have your email address in my address book yet" ... so...... how did the sender know where to send the email asking the receiver to send to the sender, the receiver's email? :-) |
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16 Nov 06 - 06:34 AM (#1886233) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: Sandra in Sydney 'twasn't spam - it just looked like it, and some recipients ISPs treated it like spam. His computer took over & kept re-sending a bounced message. And as more mailboxes overflowed, more bounces arrived in his mail box .... till he eventually came home & stopped it ..... to cut a long explanation short. it took forever to delete them cos I couldn't manage to bulk delete. sandra |
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16 Nov 06 - 07:35 AM (#1886261) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: Moses Not a spam but annoying:- I sent an e-mail to Hilary Spencer and her spam filter sent one back asking me to verify who I am by clicking on what my fileserver calls a "banned site".(My e-mail address is on a Local Authority website) Looks like she's never going to get my e-mail Christine |
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16 Nov 06 - 10:50 AM (#1886309) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: Becca72 not for nothing, fooles, but I have lots of email addresses memorized that are not in my address book... |
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16 Nov 06 - 11:44 AM (#1886366) Subject: RE: BS: Best Spams From: JennyO Robin, I thought exactly the same as you did. All sorts of alarm bells went off for me, and there was no way I would have replied to it. However, as Sandra said (she is also in this group, which is called FOG, and got the same messages) it turned out there was nothing malicious about it. However although it was unintentional, I still think it qualifies as spam. He came home later and sorted it out, and today we got an explanation. The irony of it is that in an attempt to cut down on his own spam, he inadvertently caused massive amounts of spam. I think it's hilarious! To me the explanation reads like the barrel of bricks story: I had once read about someone who solved their spam problem by limiting incoming emails to those from people in their address book and who used their email program's Rules facility to automatically reply to new messages from 'strangers' asking them to resend their email with a particular word in the subject which the rule would allow in. After doing this their name would be added to the address book so that all future emails from that person would get through. But spammers (who use computers which can't read and follow these sorts of instructions!) would never get through! Please understand that I had absolutely no intention of implementing this until I had tested it thoroughly (particularly with regard to the listservs). However, it seems that my Mail program took it upon itself to activate it for me last night - don't you hate it when programs assume you are dumb and think they know better than you as to what you want to do!!! If you have ever had a half-finished email inadvertently sent you will have some idea of how I feel! So, the sequence of events that followed is, as far as I can tell, something like this: - At about 3.06am Jenny O'****** sent a message to the FOG listserv about this Sunday's Yarri CD launch. - The listserv program tried to send Jenny's message to all of the FOG subscribers. - For some reason, the listserv wasn't able to send it to P** D**** and sent me a Bounce Digest message to that effect (as it always does every time a listserv message isn't able to be delivered - I get them all the time). - Unfortunately, on this occasion, the SPAM rule that I had set up (which wasn't supposed to be activated but WAS), intercepted because this Bounce Digest message came from fog******** which wasn't in my address book. - The rule automatically replied with my SPAM message and, because the 'sender' had been the FOG listserv, all of the FOG subscribers were sent a copy including P* D****. - Once again, the listserv wasn't able to deliver the message to P** so it sent me a Bounce Digest message which was intercepted by my SPAM rule which replied to it and so on, and so on . . . The situation soon worsened because: - the messages grew in size as the replies quoted the replies which quoted the replies etc. - some subscriber's mailboxes reached their limit and started rejecting messages which meant that the listserv sent me even more Bounce Digest messages all of which were automatically replied to etc. etc.!! - furthermore, some subscriber's mail servers quite rightly detected that they were being spammed (albeit unintentionally!!) and put a block on messages from me which resulted in even more Bounce Digest messages being sent to me and then replied to etc. etc.!!!!! If it is any consolation, not only did I (as a fellow FOG subscriber) receive all of the messages you received, I also received (and am still receiving!) countless other related system error messages. I went out for about 25 minutes late this afternoon and when I returned there were 1,300 new ones in my Inbox!! Sigh . . . Anyway, I am really, really, sorry for all of the angst and heartache this whole incident must have caused you. Most humbly . . . |