hi there, although i don't have a spare time for this, maybe there is anyone of the spam fighters willing to perform an analysis of what amount of spam is [probably] sent to addressess digested from various lists like nanog or cisco-nsp? from my own experience, the number of spams i receive daily increased about tenfold since i have subscribed. maybe some of the students participating in nanog could make a nice project with this list members could forward them all of their spams for a while, and let's see -- Tomas Daniska systems engineer Tronet Computer Networks Plynarenska 5, 829 75 Bratislava, Slovakia tel: +421 2 58224111, fax: +421 2 58224199 A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
Tomas Daniska wrote:
or cisco-nsp? from my own experience, the number of spams i receive daily increased about tenfold since i have subscribed.
The most reliable method for detecting list scraping is using tagged addresses. Of course, some spammers are smart enough to remove plussing, although some systems are designed to require the plussing to get around this. In general, the total spam sent is on the rise. Dictionary attacks are on the rise (and no offense, but your username would probably be in every dictionary attack list, as mine is in a lot of them). There are reports done up and usually published showing the most used methods of spam addressing methods (scraping lists,Usenet,web,whois; dictionary; greeting cards; trusted companies selling the address; etc). I recommend you check google or ask around on Spam-L where many admins can do a quick database search and pull the counts for different types of tagged addresses. -jack
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