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| Thread ID: 84765 | 2007-11-17 18:22:00 | Need your help re: spamming | Myth (110) | PC World Chat |
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| 612315 | 2007-11-17 18:22:00 | AS we cruise along the net, looking at whatever sites, we surely must come across sites that ask for our email addresses; with the intent that we can be added to their lists, and as a result; be spammed for the lifetime of that e-mail address. Or else you have joined up one site, and then noticed an influx of spam emails about viagra etc to your inbox from a lot of other sites I want to know where those sites are. The intent being to make a list for interested persons to blacklist I would like those website addresses to be PM-ed to me please. Thank you |
Myth (110) | ||
| 612316 | 2007-11-17 20:10:00 | I think you're on a very long road to nowhere, meaning that it'd be a never-ending task. Perhaps what you're hoping to achieve is already being done by other organisations, eg ICRA (www.fosi.org): "ICRA makes a free filter available for individual users. This will block or allow access to labelled sites based on the user's preferences." |
Greg (193) | ||
| 612317 | 2007-11-17 21:18:00 | How LONG have u got?? I just use Poptray and added a list of blacklisted domains to its blacklist. There would be at 80+ in it. Havent been spammed since. If any of the emails match whats in Poptray, it deletes them before I see them. I just get valid emails. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 612318 | 2007-11-17 21:24:00 | This has been done before, there are already many such blacklists out there, most of them regularly updated. I have my SpamAssassin setup set to automatically download filter updates at 6:30 every morning - and there is almost always something there to add. Note also that blacklisting domains isn't usually helpful - the sender address is almost always spoofed. You need to blacklist the IPs sending or relaying the junk, and interrogate the contents of the message itself. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 612319 | 2007-11-17 21:36:00 | Blacklisting domains has worked here. Haven't received any emails since from those domains. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 612320 | 2007-11-17 21:43:00 | Blacklisting domains has worked here . Haven't received any emails since from those domains . Well no, you wouldn't - you blocked them . But you will only be blocking spam that is sent with those domains as the sender - and as most spam has a spoofed 'from' header, the same spam will simply appear to originate from different sources . The only spam domain-blocking is good for is the 'newsletter' type ones that get sent with the domain of the actual sender . |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 612321 | 2007-11-17 21:59:00 | Well whatever. I havent received any spam from anyone or from anywhere. Thats good enough for me. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 612322 | 2007-11-17 22:48:00 | Then you are extremely lucky, and have managed to avoid getting on spammers' lists. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 612323 | 2007-11-17 22:50:00 | Well, there was an ulterior motive, but I wasn't sure how to word it... lets just say I am wanting to spam the PF1 spammers :D Hence why I was looking for sure things |
Myth (110) | ||
| 612324 | 2007-11-18 00:48:00 | What do you mean Spam the PF1 spammers? the ones who dont last you mean because a mod deletes their posts? is that not just causing unwanted traffic on the net? no offence intended, just unsure why you would want to go to that much effort when as said before its been done to death and like tomorow another lot will be ready to take their place . . . . . . lol apologies, in case i got wrong end of stick . beetle:stare: |
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