Re: *** ADMIN: Spamming

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two points here..

It took a year or two before the account I use here started
getting tons of spam.  My gmail account I've used for
nothing, and after 3 months I started getting spam in it..
seems to be all from the same people.. I've never used the
account ever.. it was a "test" for spam.  So that proves
they simply do some smart address building.

As for RI, I have some materials they sell and write for
them.  I know for sure they have their own compiled list of
names and AFAIK do not harvest (but those lists are bought
and sold every day between companies).  

Although it may SEEM like they harvest (and others iSeries
companies do) because if one person on the list gets a
mail, most do.  



On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:59:59 -0500
 John Myers <psumba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> About 4 months ago, I moved all my mass mailing traffic
> off my
> corporate server to a gmail account.  The ONLY thing that
> goes to this
> account is traffic from Ignite400 & Midrange.com .
> 
> Since then, I haven't received ANY spam in this account.
> I've not
> heard from Rochester Initiative or anyone else on this
> account.  I
> suspect that RI purchased a "compiled list" of AS/400
> users.  We once
> bought one (it was a POS), and were shocked when we saw
> all the
> personal / home data that was there ... unfortunately,
> the list
> vendors are looking for cash in advance!  If anyone wants
> to know who
> the vendor was, please contact me off list.
> 
> RI has been very aggressive in their eMailing ...
> unfortunately the
> folks who compile these lists are the folks who should be
> targeted!
> 
> ... just my $.02
> 
> John
> 
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:56:39 -0500, Jeff Crosby
> <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it is Rochester
> > > Initiative.  They spammed me at work in the past.
>  Last week
> > > they spammed me at home at my domain registration
> email
> > > address, which they could have only gotten by
> harvesting
> > > domain registration email addresses or name server
> SOA admin
> > > email addresses (or buying a dirty address list from
> someone
> > > else).
> > 
> > I'll bet you're right.  I get spam from them every
> week.
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Bradley V. Stone
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