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vrf Holiday Turkey spam

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<HomerSimpson> Mmmmm....... Turkey Spam..... </HomerSimpson>

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VRFuser Oct 13, 2004 11:19 PM
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Hello vrf,

This posting is with respect to the spam seen on vrf a couple of days
ago with the Subject: We want to entertain you for Thanksgiving.

I got a subscription report from the server this morning that tells me
the spammer signed up as a subscriber to vrf, sent his spam (twice),
then immediately unsubscribed.

To prevent him doing this in future, I have added his email address to a
list in the vrf server of email addresses that are not allowed to
subscribe.

Of course, if he comes in with a different email address we cannot stop
him with this method till after he spams.

We looked at possibly adding his whole domain to the no-subscribe list,
but have decided not to, partly because we're having trouble figuring
out his domain. With the somewhat weak tools I have for accessing the
vrf server computer it's very hard, if not impossible, to trace back to
his real domain.

Thanks for your patience with all this nonsense. And special thanks to
Shawn Fessenden for helping us figure out what little we know about the
spammer.

Best Regards,

Scott Bayes
Software Technical Support

Agilent Technologies, Inc.
815 14th Street S.W.
Loveland, CO, U.S.A. 80537

970 679 3799 Tel
970 635 6867 Fax

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VRFuser Oct 14, 2004 5:32 PM
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> And like any other spam, the best way of action for the rest of us
> is to simply ignore the spam. Scott & co will handle it.
> If we start to comment every spam, the loss of bw is multiplied.

Exactly! My spam filter had moved the original spam to my "deleted"
directory. (I have no idea what triggered the filter - maybe my
internet provider set a flag someplace.) It was gone until the discussion
resurrected it.

Les

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tapio.ronkainen Oct 14, 2004 7:10 PM
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And like any other spam, the best way of action for the rest of us is to simply ignore the spam. Scott & co will handle it. If we start to comment every spam, the loss of bw is multiplied. Hmmm I am just kinda doing so but anyway...

Just ignore the spam.

imho,
Tapio

If you really have to comment spam (don't get sleep at night if you don't etc.), please comment it only to the moderators.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext BAYES,SCOTT (A-Loveland,ex1)
> [mailto:scott_bayes@agilent.com]
> Sent: 14 October, 2004 23:20
> To: VRF
> Subject: [vrf] Re: Holiday Turkey spam
>
>
> Hello vrf,
>
> This posting is with respect to the spam seen on vrf a couple of days
> ago with the Subject: We want to entertain you for Thanksgiving.
>
> I got a subscription report from the server this morning that tells me
> the spammer signed up as a subscriber to vrf, sent his spam (twice),
> then immediately unsubscribed.
>
> To prevent him doing this in future, I have added his email
> address to a
> list in the vrf server of email addresses that are not allowed to
> subscribe.
>
> Of course, if he comes in with a different email address we
> cannot stop
> him with this method till after he spams.
>
> We looked at possibly adding his whole domain to the
> no-subscribe list,
> but have decided not to, partly because we're having trouble figuring
> out his domain. With the somewhat weak tools I have for accessing the
> vrf server computer it's very hard, if not impossible, to
> trace back to
> his real domain.
>
> Thanks for your patience with all this nonsense. And special thanks to
> Shawn Fessenden for helping us figure out what little we know
> about the
> spammer.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Scott Bayes
> Software Technical Support
>
> Agilent Technologies, Inc.
> 815 14th Street S.W.
> Loveland, CO, U.S.A. 80537
>
> 970 679 3799 Tel
> 970 635 6867 Fax
>
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