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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Call your Rep. now to oppose S.877 - "CAN SPAM"act
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:59:01 -0500

on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:16:01AM -0500, Sil Greene wrote:
>
> Well, all spam (in theory) has a valid link.

Ha, ha. That's a good one. Ever heard of address phishing scams? How about
broken spamware that sends out mail from a From of "$FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME"?
You assume a /lot/ that you probably shouldn't assume.

> Whether it's the From: or Reply-To: address being a valid account
> (even a mail drop), or whether an embedded link in the body of the
> message is used, the only way it's profitable is to be able to accept
> replies. So it may be unreasonable to assume valid header addresses in
> every case, but somewhere in the message is a valid connection. The
> problem is to algorithmically isolate and utilize the valid.

You can't. So, please, don't try.

All of the "University Diploma" and "Overseas Drivers License" scams I
have seen contain a phone number.

I'd say most of the spam that actually gets through has a valid URL, but
many times it is obscured by entity encoding, URL encoding, or is using a
rd.yahoo.com redirect. The whois information is almost always falsified.
The only thing that spamcop proves is that most people using spamcop can't
tell the difference between forged and real headers - even those added by
their own ISP's mail server.

Find a different method. You could start by researching ROKSO and see
who in the local area is a well-known spammer (there are quite a few in
Raleigh) and give them a call, as you propose to do to all spammers.
After all, if you want to stop spam, you have to spend a lot of time,
right? Why not spend it locally? Let us know how you do.

Steve

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