[Asrg] The fundamental misconception about paying for mail [NOTHING TO DO WITH: postage]

[Barry Shein]

On November 30, 2008 at 16:03 johnl at taugh.com (John Levine) wrote:
 > >The users here getting the highest volumes of spam (in one case > 16,000
 > >/day in bursts) have only one thing in common.
 > >
 > >Membership in lots of IETF related activities, especially mailing lists.
 > >The second most common attribute is membership in IEEE lists.
 > 
 > Do you think the bad guys are specifically trolling for lists, or is
 > it just that the IETF had unredacted online archives for a long time?

It's hard to tell cause and effect but it does seem whenever I post
here or NANOG it's followed by a sizeable joe job w/in 12-24 hours.
Sometimes other attacks like dictionary attacks.

It's not that big a deal to me, I have scripts that toss that stuff
away with a few keystrokes.

But I do notice it when looking around the systems at stats.

I like to think some spammers really don't like me and seeing my name
on a forum like this motivates them to rage. That could be very
immodest, but it gets me through the day.

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        -Barry Shein

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